State v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 180 W. Va. 342 - State v. England (1988), State v. Francis (1989)
60 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 United States v. Young · Quercia v. United States · State v. Lapham · State v. Bailey · State v. Ramsay
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a long line of cases . . . , this Court has condemned statements by the prosecutor that indicate a personal belief that the defendant is guilty. There is a great risk that the jury will give special weight to this opinion because of the prestige of the prosecutor and the fact-finding facilities available to the office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francis“it appear[ed] from the transcript that the prosecutor's motive was to retaliate against ... the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“strikes at the heart of defendant's constitutional rights or results in a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Decoteau
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.