State v. Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2011
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Murphy v. Carron · State v. Reese · United States v. Brown · State v. Howard
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Motive concerns the state of mind of the [defendant], not that of the victim. . . . . "It was the motive of the [defendant] or the state of mind of the [defendant] to which the prosecution refers, not the state of mind of the victim. This court can conceive of no justification for admitting what the state recognizes is hearsay testimony. It was not relevant to the decedent's state of mind except to show that he feared the [defendant]. His alleged fear of the [defendant] does not even show a motive. One does not kill another because the other is afraid of him. Self-defense was not an issue."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelley · State v. Revelle“Even if this theory were tenable, the prejudicial effect of evidence of an incident similar to the actions surrounding the murder of which appellant is accused far outweighs its probative value. To show that decedent was afraid of appellant would not be error in a self-defense case. To testify to similar criminal acts is error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Randolph
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.