State v. Colwell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Pinder (2005), State v. Robbins (2009)
60 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Purkett v. Elem · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · State v. Dunn · State v. Tillman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'review the evidence and all reasonable inferences that may fairly be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the jury verdict.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wells · State v. Harris“A verdict rendered by a jury is overturned only if the evidence presented at trial is so insufficient that reasonable minds could not have reached the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In circumstances where evidence should have been admitted, it is reviewed for harmless error. If it is reasonably likely a different outcome would result with the introduction of the evidence and confidence in the verdict is undermined, then exclusion is harmful.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sanchez · State v. Cecil
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.