State v. Boratto’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), State v. Martini (1993)
46 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Burks v. United States · Harrington v. California · Brown v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to preclude the substitution by a trial jury of an offense which the grand jury did not in fact consider or charge,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he test of the adequacy of an indictment is whether the document in reasonably understandable language communicates to the defendant the essential factual ingredients of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be admissible under the state of mind exception to the hearsay rule, the declarant's state of mind must be `in issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.