State v. Lerchenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Stumpf v. State (1988), Haakanson v. State (1988)
27 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 Santoni v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · United States v. Beechum · Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Bailey v. Butcher
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Allen v. State · Callahan v. State“First, the court must determine that the evidence sought to be admitted has relevance apart from propensity. Second, the court must determine that the non-propensity relevance outweighs the presumed highly prejudicial impact of the evidence. If there is no genuine nonpro-pensity relevance, the balancing step is never reached.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Betts v. State · Johnson v. State“On May 17, 1982, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Adolph Lerchenstein, owner of Alert TV, phoned Custom Coach Auto Body, which is located across the street from Alert TV. He spoke with Michael Hoffman, a co-owner of the auto repair shop. Lerchenstein called to inquire about the progress of an estimate for repair work on his truck which he had left at Custom Coach a week earlier. When Hoffman informed Lerchenstein that the estimate was not ready, an argument ensued in which, according to Hoffman and not disputed by other evidence, Lerchenstein became extremely angry, and in a rash tone cursed Hoffman and made disparaging remarks about his business. Hoffman requested that Ler-chenstein come get his truck. Lerchenstein sent an employee across the street to Custom Coach to retrieve the truck. When the employee arrived, Hoffman told him that a thirty-five dollar storage fee would be charged on the truck. Hoffman testified that he decided to charge this fee, which he did not customarily collect, because he was angry about Lerchenstein’s comments to him on the phone. The employee returned to Alert TV. A short time later, Lerchenstein crossed the street and entered his truck. Michael Hoffman approached the window of the truck with a bill and told Lerchen-stein that he owned the storage fee. At this point, Hoffman testified, Lerchen-stein “started acting real erratical.... [H]e was inside the truck and he just started jumping up and down....” Hoffman testified he told Lerchenstein that he ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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