State v. Layman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2020
11 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 State v. Pena · State v. Dunn · Arellanes v. United States · State v. Walker · State v. Hamilton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When reviewing a bench trial, '[wle recite the facts from the record most favorable to the findings of the trial court.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“prohibits a party from setting up an error at trial and then complaining of it on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Lack of such evidence may well make it impossible for the State to fulfill its duty to establish — beyond a reasonable doubt — the necessary nexus between a defendant and the contraband; any significant deficiency in evidence establishing the nexus almost always leaves room for those “reasonable hypotheses of innocence” which “necessarily raise[] a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.