State v. Prier’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably State v. Grim (1993), State v. Brown (1983)
42 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 Idaho ex rel. Evans v. Oregon · State v. Franco · State v. Biddle · State v. Castaldi · State v. Arnold
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts that a defendant was at the scene of a crime and had an opportunity to commit it are not sufficient to justify a conviction. The state must show that the accused had some substantial nexus with the commission of the crime. Presence at the scene of a crime and flight therefrom are insufficient to support a conviction unless there is no reasonable explanation for the flight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons“1. A person commits the crime of burglary in the second degree when he knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing a crime therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Weide
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.