State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Olander (1998), State v. Steinbach (1998)
42 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 · Brooks v. Tennessee · Buttrum v. Georgia · 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State · 89 N.C. App. 584 - State v. Jones
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crime of violence or act dangerous to human life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mohamud · State v. Norton“assume[s] the jury believed the evidence which supports the verdict and disbelieved any contrary evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wangstad · State v. Laib“Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smestad
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.