State v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Gibney (2003), State v. LaBounty (1998)
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 State v. Cartee · State v. Smith · State v. Miller · State v. Covell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In criminal cases, however, the broad discretion of the trial court in evidentiary matters is limited by defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him and by the demands of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re AB
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.