Kott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 167 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Franklin (1995), Briggs v. State, Department of Public Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles (1987)
34 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Roth v. United States · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Ball v. United States · Serfass v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Several aspects of our criminal law make this so: the prosecution’s discovery rights in criminal cases are limited, both by rules of court and constitutional privileges; it is prohibited from being granted a directed verdict or from obtaining a judgment notwithstanding the verdict no matter how clear the evidence in support of guilt ...; it cannot secure a new trial on the ground that an acquittal was plainly contrary to the evidence ...; and it cannot secure appellate review where a defendant has been acquitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Allee“(1) the issue decided in a prior adjudication was precisely the same as that presented in the action in question; (2) the prior litigation must have resulted in a final judgment on the merits; and (3) there must be ‘mutuality’ of parties, i.e., collateral estoppel may be invoked only by those who were parties or privies to the action in which the judgment was rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(d) An appeal to the court of appeals is a matter of right in all actions and proceedings within its jurisdiction except that [[Image here]] (2) the state’s right of appeal in criminal cases is limited by the prohibitions against double jeopardy contained in the United States Constitution and the Alaska Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Walker
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.