State v. Sladek’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Bernard (1993), State v. Ervin (1992)
173 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 People v. . Molineux · State v. Reese · State v. Wood · State v. Lyle · State v. Harris
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘In a jury-waived case a certain amount of latitude in the admission of evidence is allowed, and even where an error is made in the admission of some evidence, except where the trial court relied on that evidence in arriving at its findings of fact and conclusions of law, such error is ordinarily held to be non-prejudicial ... when an action is to the court sitting without a jury, the rules of exclusion are less strictly enforced.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ernst · State v. Blakey“'are as well established as the rule itself' and include: (1) motive; (2) intent; (3) the absence of mistake or accident....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough we have called this exception corroboration, it really involves reasoning from the signature modus operandi based upon the propensity of the defendant to commit this type of crime to the conclusion that the defendant committed the crime charged. This reasoning goes squarely against the rationale for the general rule. This makes it particularly important that the requirement for a signature modus operandi be strictly enforced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bernard · State v. Chiles
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.