State v. Trostle’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Newell (2006), State v. Ring (2001)
11 federal appellate · 158 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 Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Lockett v. Ohio · Purkett v. Elem · Enmund v. Florida
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant's ability to conform or appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney v. Ryan · State v. Hoskins“[c]omments that are invited and prompted by opposing counsel's arguments are not improper if they are reasonable and pertinent to the issues raised,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and the defendant knew or should have known that suffering would occur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Canez · State v. Montano
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.