State v. Aldrich’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably State v. Little (1960), State v. Hernandez (1964)
26 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 State of Arizona v. Guerrero · Lee v. State · Territory of Arizona v. Gomez · State v. Rothe · State v. Collins
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the law that a defendant in a criminal case should be given wide latitude in cross-examining his prosecutor for the purpose of showing motive, bias or prejudice. State v. Collins, 33 Kan. 77 , 5 P. 368 ; State v. Burkett, 33 N.M. 159 , 262 P. 532 ; State v. Guerrero, 58 Ariz. 421 , 120 P.2d 798 ; State v. Rothe, Ariz. [ 74 Ariz. 382 ], 249 P.2d 946 . See also Arnold v. State, 100 Tex.Cr.R. 387 , 272 S.W. 798 . “Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Kelly may be entirely innocent of any of the implications inferred from the questions, the defendant had the right to ask him if he had personal reasons for liking to see appellant incarcerated.” 75 Ariz. at 58 , 251 P.2d at 657 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burruell““ * * * In disposing of assignment No. 5 relative to whether an unloaded pistol constitutes a deadly weapon in a charge of ‘an assault with a deadly weapon’ we will merely state that thus far this court has not overruled or modified the doctrine relating thereto as set forth in Territory v. Gomez, 14 Ariz. 139 , 125 P. 702 , 42 L.R.A.,N.S., 975, which is to the effect that under the circumstances of this case the burden is upon the defendant to prove that the gun was not loaded. * * * ” State v. Aldrich, 75 Ariz. 53, 61 , 251 P.2d 653, 658 (1952).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gregory
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.