State v. Aarhus’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1981
14 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 Hoffman v. State · State v. Poppenga · State v. Batterman · Fossum v. Zurn · People v. Leis
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such exhibits, even though not accurate in every detail or drawn to scale, can be helpful to the jury in visualizing the testimony of the witness. Their admission is addressed to the discretion of the trial court. 32 C.J.S. Evidence § 730; 20 Am.Jur., Evidence, § 739; Wig-more on Evidence, 3rd Ed., § 790; McCormick on Evidence, p. 386.” State v. Aarhus, 80 S.D. 569, 573 , 128 N.W.2d 881, 883 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thibodeau
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.