State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 3d 1011 - People v. Griffin · State v. Bettencourt · 359 So. 2d 931 - State v. Boyd · Commonwealth v. Gordon · State v. Dechaine
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a spoliation instruction is improper when 'the destruction was a matter of routine with no fraudulent intent,' it is appropriate when 'the act was intentional or intended to suppress the truth.'”
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.