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← 638 A.2d 1043 - State v. Brigham

State v. Brigham’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
December 2022
most recently cited

1 district · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Bettencourt (1999), State v. Toole (1994)

1 district · 25 state decisions

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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 State v. Jalette · State v. Pignolet · State v. Brown · State v. Tobin · State v. Cardoza

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he factors to be considered when comparing the charged incident and the prior sexual misconduct are 'time, place, age, family relationships of the victims, and the form of the sexual acts.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Mohapatra · STATE v. Jesse S. PERRY.
  2. “As a general rule, in the prosecution of a specific crime, evidence of past, unconnected, uncharged criminal behavior is not admissible to prove a defendant's propensity to commit the crime charged. * * * The basis for excluding such evidence of `other crimes' is the belief that `the potential for creating prejudice in the minds of the jurors outweighs its probative value.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Mohapatra
  3. “probative of a plan or scheme by defendant to assault his stepdaughters prior to their thirteenth birthdays”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Mohapatra

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.