Ball v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2024
2 federal appellate · 8 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 · Blockburger v. United States · Griffin v. California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Nix v. Williams
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel are entitled to liberal freedom of speech in arguing competing inferences of the case from their opposing points of view. Frederick v. State, 2001 OK CR 34, ¶ 150 , 37 P.3d 908, 946 . Reversal is required only where grossly improper and unwarranted argument affects a defendant’s rights. Howell v. State, 2006 OK CR 28, ¶ 11 , 138 P.3d 549, 556 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Goode v. State · Grissom v. State“Prima facie evidence is evidence that is 'good and sufficient on its face,' i.e., 'sufficient to establish a given fact, or the group or chain of facts constituting the defendant's claim or defense, and which if not rebutted or contradicted, will remain sufficient to sustain a judgment in favor of the issue which it supports.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We review the determination of instructions to be given to the jury for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State
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.