State v. Rehkop’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Jackson (2008), State v. Alan S. Johnson (2023)
2 district · 28 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · United States v. Nixon · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile prosecutors are entitled to a good deal of latitude in their closing arguments, they are bound to keep within the limits of fair and temperate discussion ... circumscribed by the evidence in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The longstanding rule in Vermont is that counsel should confine argument to the evidence of the case and inferences properly drawn from it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecutor's representation that he would have considered charging the defense witnesses with perjury went beyond the 'limits of fair and temperate discussion,' by stating blatantly his opinion that the defense witnesses lied under oath when they testified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin
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.