State v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), State v. Clausell (1990)
90 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 Glasser v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Nixon · Dennis v. United States · Harris v. McRae
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be evidence, independent of the hearsay, of the existence of the conspiracy and defendant's relationship to it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] statement which would be admissible if made by the declarant at the hearing is admissible against a party if ... at the time the statement was made the party and the declarant were participating in a plan to commit a crime or civil wrong and the statement was made in furtherance of that plan. [Ibid.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where two or more persons are alleged to have conspired to commit a crime or a civil wrong, any statement made by one during the course of and in furtherance of the conspiracy is admissible in evidence against any other member of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions 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.