State v. Weldele’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Aponte (2004), State v. Ferguson (2005)
93 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ** determining whether a prohibited statement contributed to a conviction, we consider the strength of the evidence against the defendant, the prejudicial effect of the testimony, and whether a cautionary jury instruction could cure any prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Michelotti“the admissibility of [PAST] evidence remains the law as set forth in Strizich; it has not been overruled and district courts are bound by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Snell“Arguably inadequate professional performance will not warrant overturning a judgment if the counsel's error had no effect on the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. JC
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.