State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Brochu (2008), State v. LeBlanc (2000)
43 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. Pelican · State v. Hamlin · State v. Fuller · State v. Brooks
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]rror will be assigned only when the entire charge undermines our confidence in the verdict, and only in extraordinary cases will we find plain error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
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.