State v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Kersey v. Hatch (2010), 229 W. Va. 756 - State v. Kennedy (2012)
52 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 Crawford v. Washington · Teague v. Lane · Ohio v. Roberts · Douglas v. Alabama · Desist v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was deprived of the opportunity to cross-examine [the accomplice] to challenge the reliability of his statement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zamarripa
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.