State v. LaBreck’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably State v. Piskorski (1979), Pisel v. Stamford Hospital (1980)
38 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 Griffin v. California · Culombe v. Connecticut · Corallo v. United States · United States v. Garguilo · State v. Hanna
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The great weight of authority is that photographs, even though gruesome, are admissible in evidence when otherwise properly admitted if they have a reasonable tendency to prove or disprove a material fact in issue or shed some light upon some material inquiry . . . A photograph, the tendency of which may be to prejudice the jury, may be admitted in evidence if, in the sound discretion of the court, its value as evidence outweighs its possible prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardwick“has a tendency to prejudice the jury, the question before the court is whether its value as evidence outweighs its possible prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.