State v. Akins’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably State v. Hughes (1967), State v. Moore (1972)
53 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 Lovely v. United States · State v. Little · Roulston v. State · State v. Serna · Vigil 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * evidence of other crimes is competent to prove the specific crime charged when it tends to establish motive, intent, the absence of mistake or accident, identity, a scheme or plan common to the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other.” State v. Akins, 94 Ariz. 263 , 383 P.2d 180 (1963).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Similarities between the offenses . must be in those important aspects where normally there could be expected to be found differences.” 94 Ariz. at 266 , 383 P.2d at 183 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dale
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.