State v. Bluff’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Layton City v. Carr (2014), State v. Killpack (2008)
1 district · 67 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 Strickland v. Washington · Holbrook v. Flynn · State v. Dunn · State v. Holgate · State v. Menzies
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, we recite the facts from the record in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict and present conflicting evidence only as necessary to understand issues raised on appeal.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“We afford the trial court wide latitude in sentencing and, generally, 'will reverse a trial court's sentencing decision only if it is an abuse of the judge's discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“First, [the court] determine[s] whether the photograph is relevant. Second, [it] consider[s] whether the photograph is gruesome. Finally, [it] appl[ies] the appropriate balancing test. If the photograph is gruesome, it should not be admitted unless the State can show that the probative value of the photograph substantially outweighs the risk of unfair prejudice. If the photograph is not gruesome, it should be admitted unless the defendant can show that the risk of unfair prejudice substantially outweighs the probative value of the photograph.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.