State v. Melendez’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
16 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Gordon v. Tobias · State v. Whistnant · State v. Sivri · State v. Hines
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant's fleeing the scene [of the murder] and subsequent flight to Puerto Rico are evidence of his consciousness of guilt. 'We have in the past considered consciousness of guilt evidence as part of the evidence from which a jury may draw an inference of an intent to kill.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.