State v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Scherzer (1997), State v. Brown (1994)
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 Florida v. Royer · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Chadwick · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Chiarella 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is `the nondelegable and nonremovable responsibility of the jury to decide' the question of guilt or innocence in accordance with those instructions. (citation omitted). The "`question is not whether guilt may be spelt out of a record, but whether guilt has been found by a jury....'" (citation omitted). To this we would add only that the question is not whether a theory of guilt may be spelt out of a record, but whether guilt on that theory has been found by a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a jury in a criminal case must be appropriately instructed on the theory of liability that is advanced in support of a criminal conviction; absent such instruction, a conviction cannot stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`question is not whether guilt may be spelt out of a record, but whether guilt has been found by a jury....'”
1 later decision 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.