State v. Saavedra’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably County of Los Alamos v. Tapia (1990), State v. Litteral (1990)
46 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Downum v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Saavedra argues the judge should have granted the continuance instead of jumping to the conclusion that defense counsel would not be up to the strain of continuing with trial.... Although it may have been the better course, we do not believe that the Constitution [of the United States] required the trial court to grant the defendant's request for a one week continuance in order to make a more 'scrupulous' choice than the one in fact made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carman v. State“sufficient reasons presented to justify declaration of a mistrial, ... the fact that the judge would have been in a better position to assess the situation had he taken the steps suggested by the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the underlying issue involves a deadlocked jury or possible jury bias, the trial judge should be allowed broad discretion whether to declare a mistrial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.