State v. Vallo’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2000
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Michigan v. Ohio · State v. Nance · State v. Romero · State v. Peke · State v. Chaves
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is trite to observe that in every criminal prosecution the first step must be to prove that the crime charged has been committed by some one. This proof may or may not primarily connect the defendant with the offense. In homicide cases it must be shown that the person whose death is alleged in the indictment is in fact dead, and that his [or her] death was criminally caused. If these facts are shown the corpus delicti is sufficiently proven.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sosa“The corpus delicti of a particular offense is established simply by proof that the crime was committed; the identity of the perpetrator is not material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gruender
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.