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State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
2
states following
January 2026
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Pratt v. Nelson (2007), 2013 UT App 213 - State v. Campos (2013)

53 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 Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Beck v. Alabama · State v. Pena · State v. Dunn

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

  1. “the charged offense and the lesser included offense have overlapping statutory elements”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “views the evidence in the light most favorable to the defendant requesting the instruction.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “A trial court's refusal to grant a lesser included offense instruction is a question of law, which we review for correctness.”
    3 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.