State v. LaBranche’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Farrow (1978), State v. Ellison (1991)
71 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 Bruton v. United States · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Delli Paoli v. United States · State v. Cote · State v. Ruelke
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n appellate tribunal cannot read the jury's mind or speculate on the result that would have been obtained had not this improper evidence been put on the scale against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Welch“counsel may refrain from interrupting testimony and raising an immediate objection to avoid accentuating the potential problem,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lavallee“whether it can be said beyond a reasonable doubt that the inadmissible evidence did not affect the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Welch
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.