Yearty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Erickson v. State (1997), Johnson v. State (2014)
30 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 McClain v. State · 45 Cal. 3d 306 - People v. Poggi · Whitton v. State · Dorman v. State · State v. Dunlop
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is difficult to conceive of a situation in which an act of sexual abuse on a child would not also be an act of sexual assault”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the offenses involve differences in intent or conduct, or when the statutory provisions that have been violated protect societal interests that are significantly different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Iyapana v. State · State v. Bonham“[t]o the extent that Oswald is inconsistent with our subsequent decision in [ Rodriquez ], we hold that the latter case overrules Oswald .”
2 later decisions 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.