State v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2017
6 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 Johnson v. United States · Gerberding v. United States · United States v. Conti · United States v. Alsop · Fairman 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Where] a single offense may be committed by one or more specified means, and those means are charged alternatively, the state need only prove one of the alternative means in order to sustain a conviction. Thus, notice of the charged offense is not improved by alleging that the crime was committed by acts “a” and “b” rather than by acts “a” or “b.” In either case, the accused must prepare a defense to all means by which it is alleged the crime was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where. . a single offense may be committed by one or more specified means, and those means are charged alternatively, the state need only prove one of the alternative means in order to sustain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.