Mardorff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably Adams v. State (1982), Smith v. Wainwright (1984)
67 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 Adams v. State · Forehand v. State · Savage v. State · Hall v. State · Lindberg v. State
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where they are otherwise properly admitted, it is not a valid objection to the admissibility of photographs that they tend to prejudice the jury. Competent and material evidence should not be excluded merely because it may have a tendency to cause an influence beyond the strict limits for which it is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. State““We close our discussion of the correctness of the court’s action in admitting the pictures with the observation that the defendant could not complain because of their shocking nature when the horrible scene disclosed was one which he, himself, created.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to inflame the minds of the jury to a state of passion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. State
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.