State v. Purnell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Natale (2005), State v. Henderson (2011)
54 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Stovall v. Denno · Teague v. Lane · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a structural error affects the legitimacy of the entire trial . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`good faith reliance [on] then-prevailing constitutional norms.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`overcome an aspect of a criminal trial that substantially impairs its truth-finding function' and which [raise] `serious questions about the accuracy of guilty verdicts in past trials.'" In those cases, given the fundamental constitutional implications, the new rule is often given "complete retroactive effect, regardless of how much the State justifiably relied on the old rule or how much the administration of justice is burdened." [ Ibid. (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.