State v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2016
7 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 State v. Petree · State v. Howell · 30 Utah 2d 439 - State v. Harris · State v. Ballenberger
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If a competent witness with personal knowledge of the facts represented by a photograph testifies that the photograph accurately reflects those facts, it is admissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any minor discrepancies in the testimony went only to the details of the time and place the pictures were taken.... [Slince they were not material to the purpose for which the evidence was introduced, they did not undermine the adequacy of the foundation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thlis situation was sufficiently analogous to that of an owner to permit him to testify regarding the value of the property under his supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Christensen
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.