State v. Picciotti’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably State v. Lucas (1959), State v. Corby (1958)
45 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 State v. Auld · State v. Donohue · Donnelly v. State · State v. Cole · State v. Rosa
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is designed to allow the appellate court to consider plain error, though not brought to the attention of the trial court, when its conscience is shocked, when it is convinced that substantial justice was not done below, and that an unjust, unconscionable result was brought about by the error or errors first raised on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plain errors affecting substantial rights of the defendant, although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a haven of refuge for those who fail to comply with the ordinary rules governing criminal trials”
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.