State v. Zagorski’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably State v. Byrd (1984), Breeding v. Dodson Trailer Repair, Inc. (1984)
30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rideout v. United States · Houltin v. United States · State v. Treadway · Fisher v. Gunn · State v. Robb
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By what we are doing, we are again encouraging the use of devious and slick argument by prosecutors, this time on the ground it was only a response to an attack by cross examination. Such an excuse will always be present in a contested criminal trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Dudley
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.