State v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Chipps (2016), Sazama v. State Ex Rel. Muilenberg (2007)
35 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ornelas v. United States · Griffin v. California · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor's intent is not `manifest' if there is an equally plausible explanation for the prosecutor's remarks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“denial of a motion for mistrial will not be overturned unless there is an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Randle“the defendant knows what happened, but he's not talking. He's not telling us what happened.”
1 later decision 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.