Pavlacka v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2013
16 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 Montgomery v. State · Boutwell v. State · Vernon v. State · Cohn v. State · Duckett v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent some independent corroboration, there is no better reason to believe the complainant's account of extraneous misconduct than there is to believe his account of the misconduct for which the accused is on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. State“[T]his is precisely the inference that Rule 404(b) prohibits, because the probative value is deemed substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State“mere repetition of allegations from a source of dubious credibility does not render that source any more credible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. State
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.