State v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Gresham (2012), State v. Montgomery (2008)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 52 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Morissette v. United States · Davis v. Washington
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.
“Forfeiture is grounded in equity — the notion that people cannot complain of the natural and generally intended consequences of their actions. Specific intent to prevent testimony is unnecessary. Knowledge that the foreseeable consequences of one’s actions include a witness’ unavailability at trial is adequate to conclude a forfeiture of confrontation rights. The finding of a specific intent to keep a witness from testifying argued by Mason is more than is warranted by the “equitable” grounds upon which the rule is based.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]f this court was incorrect in Townsend then, upon a proper record, our decision should be challenged in a truly adversarial proceeding. If our reasoning was flawed in Townsend, and there are legitimate strategic and tactical reasons why informing a jury about issues of punishment would advance the interest of justice and provide a more fair trial, then counsel should zealously advance the arguments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rafay · State v. Hicks“observed that the “core” class of “testimonial” statements included those “pretrial statements that declarants would reasonably expect to be used prosecutorially.” The Court also seemed to quote with approval a brief that described testimonial statements as “statements that were made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the statement would be available for use at a later trial.””
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.