2007 UT App 349 - State v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2025
22 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 Berger v. United States · Benner v. Ohio · State v. Dunn · United States v. Diaz-Carreon · State v. Knight
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“divert the jury from its duty to decide the case on the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buck · State v. Wright“whether defense counsel addressed the improper statements during closing argument and the prosecution then 'restricted his [ Jrebuttal comments to the evidence and made no further mention of the improper comments,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the trial court gave a curative instruction admonishing the jury to 'dispassionately consider and weigh the evidence' and instructing them 'not to consider the statements of counsel as evidence'”
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.