State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Ariegwe (2007), State v. Derbyshire (2009)
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 State v. Just · Unified Industries, Inc. v. Easley · State v. Matt · State v. Smith · State v. Ford
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jury cannot be presumed to ignore their duties to respect the instructions of the court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he strength of the evidence against the defendant together with the prejudicial influence of the inadmissible evidence and whether a cautionary, jury instruction could cure any prejudice in determining whether a prohibited statement contributed to the conviction. A mistrial should be denied, however, for technical errors or defects that do not affect the substantial rights of the defendant and the record is sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gerstner“A witness may be re-examined as to the same matters to which the witness testified only in the discretion of the court, but without exception the witness may be re-examined as to any new matter brought out during cross-examination. After the examination of the witness has been concluded by all the parties to the action, that witness may be recalled only in the discretion of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hatfield
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.