State v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Lee (2006), 48 Cal. 3d 1001 - People v. Murtishaw (1989)
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 Bollenbach v. United States · People v. Daniels · People v. Levy · State v. Cobo · State v. Ayers
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(ilt is normally unnecessary and undesirable for a trial judge to volunteer definitions of terms of common usage for the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Bird“merely incidental or subsidiary to [the companion] crime, but was an independent, separately punishable offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz · State v. Sanchez“a period of detention longer than the minimum inherent in the commission of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.