State v. Van Tran’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Odom (1996), State v. Bland (1997)
1 federal appellate · 59 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. Middlebrooks · State v. Harris · State v. Black · State v. Bobo
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In [Kai Yin Chuey’s] case we have a helpless 74-year-old woman, who had already been shot by the Defendant and was lying on the floor unable to protect herself when the Defendant put a gun to the back of her head and shot her a second time. We find the evidence of this brutal and senseless execution of a helpless old woman sufficient to support this aggravating circumstance in the murder of Kai Yin Chuey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Van Tran v. Colson
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.