State v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Urioste (2011), State v. Rivera (2009)
46 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. Gomez · Swafford v. State · State v. Rojo · State v. Barber · State v. Wilson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For fundamental error to exist, the instruction given must differ materially from the uniform jury instruction, omit essential elements, or be so confusing and incomprehensible that a court cannot be certain that the jury found the essential elements under the facts of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Candelaria“This Court ... is not bound by the [prosecution's] concession[,] and we conduct our own analysis[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Urioste
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.