State v. Cotto’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Holmes v. South Carolina (2006), State v. Chapland (2006)
42 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 Crawford v. Washington · Chambers v. Mississippi · Crane v. Kentucky · Benitez v. Mata · State v. Koedatich
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition and without opportunity to deliberate or fabricate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When identification is a 'key issue,' the trial court must instruct the jury on identification, even if a defendant does not make that request.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the State may sometimes present such overwhelming corroborative evidence that the `failure to give an identification instruction does not constitute error,' but such cases are the exception. Rather, the trial court is required to issue a `specific instruction' even when defendant's misidentification argument is `thin.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.