State v. Eckles’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1997
20 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · State v. McAfee · People v. Kehoe · State v. Blackwell · State v. Quintana
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of whether one criminal offense has merged in another is not, as defendant contends, whether the two criminal acts are successive steps in the same transaction but whether one offense necessarily involves the other. ;¡i ‡ * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Everitt““Robbery consists of the theft of anything of value from the person of another or from the immediate control of another, by use or threatened use of force or violence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Puga
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.