State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Colon (2008), State v. Skatzes (2004)
83 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. Long · State v. Landrum · State v. Frazier · State v. Sellards · State v. Murphy
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the requirements of an indictment may be met by reciting the language of the criminal statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In addition, the indictment compels the government to aver all material facts constituting the essential elements of an offense, thus affording the accused adequate notice and an opportunity to defend.”
2 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.