Madison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Grandison v. State (1986)
2 district · 105 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 Corens v. State · Davis v. State · McCleary v. State · Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. State Ex Rel. Smith · Peters and Demby v. State
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are told that failure to raise below questions now raised was due to fear of prejudicing defendant before the jury by objections, especially objections which suggest guilt, e.g., the right of the jury to find a verdict without capital punishment. We are aware that some lawyers include such ‘taboos’ in their ‘trial tactics’— and others, who have attained reputation as trial lawyers, make any objections they deem substantial and press them to the end. We are, however, without authority to review errors in trial tactics of defense counsel or to speculate as to possibilities that different tactics might have produced a different result.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whatever ‘plain error material to the rights of the accused’ may include, it does not include bad guesses by counsel whether or not to object to anything done or left undone by the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, and accurately stating the five verdicts, including”
2 later decisions 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.