State v. Figueroa’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2026
11 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 Allen v. United States · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · State v. Ramseur · United States v. Fioravanti · United States v. Robinson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“guided by a concern for the weighty role that the judge plays in the dynamics of the courtroom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if the jury has reported a definite deadlock after a reasonable period of deliberations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]e concluded that the charge then generally utilized was inherently coercive, and we directed trial courts to use instead an alternate form of the charge that would avoid pressuring dissenting jurors into surrendering their `honest convictions' about guilt or innocence merely to reach a unanimous verdict.”
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.