State v. Hephner’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably State v. Piskorski (1979), State v. Richardson (1990)
34 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 Shover v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital · Law Ex Rel. Law v. Hemmingsen · Blackwell v. State · State v. McNamara · State v. Harless
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We have held repeatedly that misconduct of the prosecuting attorney in argument does not require granting a new trial unless it appears to have been so prejudicial as to deprive defendant of a fair trial * * *. “We have also frequently pointed out that the trial court is in much better position than we are to judge whether claimed misconduct of counsel is so prejudicial as amounts to denial of a fair trial. Considerable discretion is allowed the trial court in passing on such a matter and we will not interfere with its determination unless it clearly appears there has been a manifest abuse of such discretion. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Still · State v. Lyons“It is ... thoroughly settled that the fact testimony used in rebuttal might have been used as part of the [S]tate’s main ease does not render it inadmissible in rebuttal if it rebuts some of the matters testified to by defendant’s witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.