State v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Delisle (1994), State v. Cooper (1997)
55 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 Beck v. Alabama · Keeble v. United States · Spaziano v. Florida · Hicks v. Oklahoma · Standard Oil Co. v. New Jersey
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an absolute bar to the prosecution of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. E.W. · State v. Twiggs“Unless a jury is told that it can convict the defendant of lesser-included offenses, it may be tempted to find defendant guilty of a crime he or she did not commit simply because it prefers to convict on some crime rather than no crime at all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cassady · State v. Smith“impartial deliberations upon the guilt of a criminal defendant based solely upon the evidence in accordance with proper and adequate instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.