Swingley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foss v. Foss · In re Rivera · Fleener v. State · Allen v. State · Cutter v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even gory and revolting photographs may be admissible as long as they are relevant to some material issue or show scenes that a witness could describe orally.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Corbett v. State · Wilson v. State“'there are situations where some alteration of the body is nee-essary to demonstrate the testimony being given”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“record is unclear as to the extent the body was altered so that the wound was open, but even if the body was positioned in such a way as to open the wound more than it was originally, the positioning was necessary to show the extent of the wound and the cause of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.