State v. Feaster’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Pasqua v. Council (2006), State v. Oliveira (2001)
41 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 18 U.S.C. § 6003
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Lockett v. Ohio · Washington v. Texas · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ost-conviction relief is a defendant's last opportunity to raise a constitutional challenge to the fairness and reliability of a criminal verdict in our state system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinarily will be to leave the matter of suspicion of criminality attendant upon the actions of the prospective witness . . . for such attention at the conclusion of the case as [may be] warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Not only the defendant, but the state and its citizens have an overwhelming interest in insuring that there is no mistake in the imposition of the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jimenez
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.