Findley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Catanio (2004), Seim v. State (1979)
2 district · 39 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 People v. Kelley · 31 Cal. 2d 469 - People v. Westek · Nester v. State · State v. McDaniel · McMichael 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Taylor v. State · Richmond v. State“[I]t is not a desirable order of proof that would permit a prosecutor ... to anticipate what an accused's defenses might be, absent the admission of a confession, admission against interest, or the like.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Flanagan 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.