State v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Afanador (1997), State v. Reddish (2004)
120 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. MacOn · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · State v. Green · State v. Lucas · State v. Kociolek
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently grievous to justify notice by the reviewing court and to convince the court that of itself the error possessed a clear capacity to bring about an unjust result.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Chavies · State v. Chew“[c]learly capable of producing an unjust result such that a reasonable doubt is raised as to whether the error led the jury to a result it otherwise might not have reached”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]rroneous instructions on matters or issues that are material to the jury's deliberation are presumed to be reversible error in criminal prosecutions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.