State v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 161 Ohio St. 3d 285 - State v. Henderson (Slip Opinion) (2020), State v. Fry (2010)
253 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Fulminante · Johnson v. United States · Neder v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n indictment, which does not contain all the essential elements of an offense, may be amended to include the omitted element, if the name or the identity of the crime is not changed, and the accused has not been misled or prejudiced by the omission of such element from the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n Colon I , the error in the indictment led to errors that `permeate [d] the trial from beginning to end and put into question the reliability of the trial court in serving its function as a vehicle for determination of guilt or *Page 9 innocence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[f]ailure to include the element of `recklessness' in an indictment for endangering children in no way alters either the name, identity or severity of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.