8 Ariz. App. 534 - State v. Beers’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Chapple (1983), State v. Smith (1979)
43 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 v. Little · State v. Bearden · 109 Cal. App. 2d 524 - People v. Burns · Commonwealth v. Wilson · Oxendine v. State
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Relevancy is thus not the sole test of the admissibility of evidence; admissibility depends, rather, on a balancing of the various effects of the admission of such evidence, considered in the light of recognized rules of law governing the administration of criminal justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chapple““Homicide is excusable when: “1. Committed by accident and misfortune, or in doing a lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Powers
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.