State v. DeVincentis’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Saucier (2007), State v. Gallegos (2007)
58 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt · 125 Wash. 2d 847 - State v. Lough · 98 Wash. 2d 358 - State v. Saltarelli · State v. Thang · State v. Walker
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]dmission of evidence of a common scheme or plan requires substantial similarity between the prior bad acts and the charged crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court must always begin with the presumption that evidence of prior bad acts is inadmissible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Magers · State v. Fisher
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.