State v. Getsy’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 726 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 753 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Issa (2001)
21 federal appellate · 726 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Jenks · Cuyler v. Sullivan · State v. Bradley
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 753 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attains the high degree of probative force and certainty required of a criminal conviction.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is substantial evidence upon which a jury could reasonably conclude that all the elements have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant bears the heavy burden of establishing, at least prima facie, (1) that, while others similarly situated have not generally been proceeded against because of conduct of the type forming the basis of the charge against him, he has been singled out for prosecution, and (2) that the government's discriminatory selection of him for prosecution has been invidious or in bad faith, i.e., based upon such impermissible considerations as race, religion, or the desire to prevent his exercise of constitutional rights.”
5 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.