State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Rodgers (1985), State v. Bailey (1988)
113 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 Holland v. United States · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · State v. Stepney · Johnson v. Flammia · Leatherwood v. Mississippi
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that in a trial to the court the trial judge is the sole arbiter of the credibility of the witnesses . . . [a]nd the weight to be accorded their testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.