People v. Eppens’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably People v. Tillery (2009), People v. Wittrein (2009)
73 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 Tome v. United States · Wilson v. People · United States v. Ellis · United States v. Rubin · People v. Ibarra
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to rise to the level of plain error, an error must have so undermined the fundamental fairness of the trial itself as to cast serious doubt on the reliability of the judgment of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a party may defend the judgment of the [district] court on any ground supported by the record, regardless of whether that ground was relied upon or even contemplated by the [district] court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“trial court must determine whether the statements have some probative force bearing on the eredibility of the witness beyond the mere fact that the witness has repeated on a prior occasion a statement consistent with his or her trial testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Clark
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.