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State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
3
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Maestas (2012), State v. Nielsen (2014)

34 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 Allen v. Wright · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Godfrey v. Georgia

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

  1. “To prevail under plain error review, a defendant must demonstrate that [1] an error exists; [2] the error should have been obvious to the trial court; and [8] the error is harmful, ie., absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “call to the attention of ... jurors matters which they would not be justified in considering in determining their verdict,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[i]f prose-cutorial misconduct is established, the State must show that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    2 later decisions 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.