State v. Palenkas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably People v. Pollard (2013), Wilson v. IHC Hospitals, Inc. (2012)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Young · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. Gouveia · Castor v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Likewise, in this case, defendant's testimony on direct examination did not 'invite' error; it merely responded to it. His testimony about his attempts to contact his attorney was necessary to explain the state's prior evidence elicited, in violation of the in limine orders, of his refusal to consent to a search. 20 172 The invited error doctrine serves two policy goals. First, the doctrine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The state fails to recognize that defense counsel's purpose in eliciting that testimony on direct examination was to explain defendant's refusal to consent to a search of his car, which the prosecution had elicited from the two police officers in its case-in-chief.... - [Dlefen-dant's testimony on direct examination did not 'invite' error; it merely responded, to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Pollard
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.