Summers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 237 Ill. 2d 154 - People v. Banks (2010), Chavez v. State (2009)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Crawford v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia
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.
“'by going over the rair). Here, the court marshals removed both of the victim's parents after the incidents, signaling to the jury that the outbursts were 2The video recording of the proceedings is consistent with the SUPREME COURT substance of the comment discussed by the parties. OF NEVADA 2 (0) 1947A 4443tec• inappropriate. In fact, one juror asked court staff if there would be increased security over concerns about the father's outburst. After the mother's outburst, the district court instructed the jury to disregard the inappropriate outburst from the audience and not to consider it during deliberations and that sympathy or public opinion must not influence the verdict.3 And "this court generally presumes that juries follow district court orders and instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.