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← 2003 MT 300 - State v. Falls Down

State v. Falls Down’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Heath (2004), State v. Jay (2013)

31 state decisions

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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 · Powers v. Ohio · Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Georgia v. McCollum · Pointer v. United States

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(2) A challenge for cause may be taken for all or any of the following reasons or for any other reason that the court determines:... (j) having a state of mind in reference to the case or to either of the parties that would prevent the juror from acting with entire impartiality and without prejudice to the substantial rights of either party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Hart
  2. “fixed opinions on the guilt or innocence of the defendant which they would not be able to lay aside and render a verdict based solely on evidence presented in court,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. C. Russell
  3. “only after . . . manipulation of the potential jurors' initial responses did their responses become unclear and seemingly biased.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Heath

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.