State v. Menzies’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Bailey v. Bayles (2002), State v. Maestas (2012)
193 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Ohio v. Roberts · Godfrey v. Georgia · Booth v. Maryland · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly convinced that the rule was originally erroneous or is no longer sound because of changing conditions and that more good than harm will come by departing from precedent.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“Those asking us to overturn prior precedent have a substantial burden of persuasion.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bisner · Bailey v. Bayles“Horizontal stare decisis ... requires that a court of appeals follow its own prior decisions. This doctrine applies with equal force to courts comprised of multiple panels, requiring each panel to observe the prior decisions of another.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.