State v. Pledger’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Taylor v. Meacham (1996), State v. Winfield (2006)
2 federal appellate · 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · State v. Anderson · State v. Archambeau · Diaz v. State · Cruz v. Montoya
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[ulnless the evidence is wholly lacking and incapable of reasonable inference to prove some issue which supports the [prosecution's] claim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'present a quantum of evidence sufficient to warrant submission of the case to the trier of fact'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`In making a determination as to probable cause, the magistrate should view the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution and resolve all inferences in favor of the prosecution.'”
3 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.