State v. Applegate’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2018
23 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 · People v. . Molineux · State v. Reese · State v. Franco · Kimmie v. Terminal Railroad Assn.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, the head injury, the external bruises and finally the vicious assault which resulted in the victim’s death are unequivocally part of a pattern, and evidence of other assaults upon the infant’s person was relevant, admissible, and had a logical tendency to prove the defendant’s guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.