State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2012
14 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 Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · State v. Howell · State v. McCardell · State v. Carter · State v. Lamm
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The fact finder is free to weigh . conflicting evidence presented and to draw its own conclusions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was relevant to show the general circumstances surrounding defendant's purchase, receipt, and retention of the stolen property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boyd“The existence of contradictory evidence does not warrant disturbing the ... verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.