State v. Jefferson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Taylor (1996), State v. Malave (1999)
79 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 Griffin v. California · Barbato v. Epstein · State v. Caron · State v. Crescenzo · 17 Ill. 2d 328 - The People v. Russell
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the] defendant did not call the witnesses because he knew their testimony would be unfavorable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) was the comment directed specifically to the defendant's failure to take the stand or to the quality of evidence presented by the defense; (2) did the trial justice, after objection was made, give a proper cautionary instruction; (3) were the prosecutorial comments aggravated or repetitive; (4) was the defendant the only person who could refute the evidence which would thereby cause the comment to be directly pointed at the accused. State v. Jefferson, 116 R.I. 124, 137 , 353 A.2d 190, 198 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Andrews
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.