State v. Toole’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Donald Young (2013), State v. Bettencourt (1999)
65 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 State v. Glover · State v. Jalette · Getz v. State · State v. Girouard · State v. Long
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake or accident, or to prove that defendant feared imminent bodily harm and that the fear was reasonable."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morey · State v. Jimenez“issues that were not preserved by a specific objection at trial, sufficiently focused so as to call the trial justice's attention to the basis for said objection, may not be considered on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jose Colon“has a sua sponte obligation `to offer a limiting instruction when admitting evidence of other [uncharged] sexual acts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.