State v. Low’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Johnson (2017), State v. Hummel (2017)
121 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · United States v. Tateo
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail under plain error review, a defendant must demonstrate that [1] an error exists; [2] the error should have been obvious to the trial court; and [8] the error is harmful, ie., absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Prawitt · State v. Houston“[A]n objection at trial based on one ground ... does not preserve for appeal any alternative grounds for objection.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crabb · State v. Bell“When a party fails to preserve an issue for appeal, we will address the issue only if (1) the appellant establishes that the district court committed plain error, (2) exceptional circumstances exist, or (3) in some situations, if the appellant raises a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to preserve the issue.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sessions · State v. Lee
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.