State v. Wach’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Maestas (2012), State v. Allen (2005)
46 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 Reynolds v. States · Ross v. Oklahoma · State v. Menzies · State v. Bishop · State v. Saunders
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is plainly wrong in that the incident so likely influenced the jury that the defendant cannot be said to have had a fair trial, we will not find that the court's decision was an abuse of discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Duran · State v. Cooper“[a] trial court's denial of a motion for a mistrial will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Duran · State v. Cooper“[A] trial court's determination of whether to excuse a prospective juror for cause should not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions 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.