State v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Chapple (1983), State v. Clark (1980)
6 district · 32 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. Brierly · State v. Thomas · State v. Makal · Janovich v. State · State v. Zaerr
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Gjruesome or inflammatory evidence may be admitted if it is material to some aspect of the case. * * * In such circumstances, the trial court must determine whether the probative value of the evidence outweighs its potential to prejudice the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Summerlin
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.