State v. Berlin’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), In Re Personal Restraint of Andress (2002)
145 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 Beck v. Alabama · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Schmuck v. United States · Vasquez v. Hillery · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant is entitled to an instruction on a lesser included offense if two conditions are met. First, each of the elements of the lesser offense must be a necessary element of the offense charged. Second, the evidence in the case must support an inference that the lesser crime was committed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“To establish that an offense is a lesser included offense, the rule is: first, each of the elements of the lesser offense must be a necessary element of the offense charged; second, the evidence in the case must support an inference that the lesser crime was committed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he defendant may be found guilty of an offense the commission of which is necessarily included within that with which he is charged in the indictment or information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner · State v. Porter
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.