State v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos (1994), Herron v. State (1991)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 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. Tanton · State v. Upton · State v. Weddle · State v. DeSantos · State v. Buchanan
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defense should have raised the `single criminal intent' doctrine at the trial level, should have presented a proper quantum of proof to sustain the submission of the theory, should have presented proper instructions and should have objected to the separate instructions....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brooks“Statutes are to be given effect as written and, where free from ambiguity, there is no room for construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“generally a question for the jury to decide”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brooks
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.