State v. Tixier’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State v. Jacobs (1985), State v. Reynolds (1990)
36 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. McAfee · 249 Cal. App. 2d 547 - People v. Walters · 3 Ill. App. 3d 738 - People v. Davis · State v. Liberty · State v. Foster
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny penetration, however slight, of the interior space is sufficient”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no evidence that any part of defendant’s body entered the store. However, there is a fair inference from the evidence that the instrument used to remove the piece of door crossed the light beam and activated the burglary alarm. [Thus], [t]he question is whether evidence that an unidentified instrument penetrated one-half inch inside the building is sufficient evidence of entry____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (b) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.””
1 later decision 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.