State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. Holgate (2000)
115 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. Worthen · 22 Utah 2d 149 - State v. Gellatly
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) It must be such as could not with reasonable diligence have been discovered and produced at the trial; (2) it must not be merely cumulative; (8) it must be such as to render a different result probable on the retrial of the case'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goddard · State v. Martin
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.