State v. Aponte’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Levy v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities (1996), In re Tabitha (1995)
2 district · 106 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · State v. Caruolo · State v. Grundy · State v. Fenner · State v. Jenison
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When addressing a motion to dismiss a criminal information, a [Superior Court] justice is required to examine the information and any attached exhibits to determine whether the state has satisfied its burden to establish probable cause to believe that the offense charged was committed and that the defendant committed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Martini
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.