State v. Pelican’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Bacon (1995), State v. Oscarson (2004)
108 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 · State v. Wheelock · State v. Unwin · State v. Billado · State v. Hoadley
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain error exists only in exceptional circumstances where a failure to recognize error would result in a miscarriage of justice, or where there is glaring error so grave and serious that it strikes at the very heart of the defendant's constitutional rights.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The district court gave a thorough explanation of the many factors it relied on, and defendant has not shown that he was prejudiced in any way by the factual assertions made during the victim-impact statements. ¶ 9. Defendant's second related argument is that it was plain error to permit a family friend and fiance of the victim's sister to testify. A family friend or fiance is not a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kimmick“[p]rejudice must exist to demonstrate that error undermined fairness and contributed to a miscarriage of justice.”
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.