Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Corens v. State (1946)
45 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 Wentz v. State · Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. State Ex Rel. Smith · Hitzelberger v. State · Riss & Co. v. Anderson · Wimpling v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of collateral facts ... should be excluded, for the reason that such evidence tends to divert the minds of the jury from the real point in issue, and may arouse their prejudices.). Here, Mr. Heath's intent to sell cocaine at Ottobar had nothing to do with the underlying criminal charges, and thus exceeded the limitations of the opening the door doctrine. Secondly, in permitting the State to respond to defense counsel's opening remark, the trial judge was limited to providing a "remedy [that was] proportionate to the malady.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As these photographs were merely representations of injuries which had been fully described by the witness, and not denied to exist, their introduction in evidence could not be held to have injured the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State“the connection of the fact proved with the offense charged, as evidence which has a natural tendency to establish the fact at issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allewalt
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.