State v. Beachum’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Duffy (1998), State v. Altgilbers (1989)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 United States v. Figueroa · United States v. O'Connor · United States v. Powell · State v. Ross · State v. Mason
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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“when the similarity of the other crimes to the crime charged 'demonstrate[s] a unique or distinct pattern easily attributable to one person'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Abel“In order to admit evidence under [this Rule], the court must find that the evidence is relevant to a disputed issue other than the defendant's character, and it must determine that the prejudicial effect of the evidence does not outweigh its probative value. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaitan
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.