State v. Knoeppel’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2021
15 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 Amemiya v. Sapienza · State v. Rodgers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The charge against a defendant is an indictment, a complaint or an oral charge filed in court. A felony shall be prosecuted by an indictment or a complaint. Any other offense may be prosecuted by an indictment, a complaint, or an oral charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ferm“mandate[d] that a criminal complaint . . . be: 1) signed by the prosecutor; or 2) sworn to or affirmed in writing before the prosecutor by the complaining witness and be signed by the prosecutor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thompson.“[c]ases for adults charged with the commission of a crime coming within the jurisdiction of the family courts shall be governed by the [HRPP].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thompson.
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.