Teniente v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Schreibvogel v. State (2010), Dixon v. State (2019)
39 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Smith v. Phillips
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[We have one eyewitness, one eyewitness that stepped up to the plate February 18th, and said, 'I was there. This is what happened. A statement as, you know, he has stayed consistent with, a statement he testified to in Eddie's trial. As you notice, when [defense counsel] went to question him, he couldn't impeach him on any of his prior inconsistent statements because there weren't any. He has stayed consistent, ladies and gentlemen, even in the face of threats from his family, ostracism by his family. He saw what happened, and he decided to step forward and tell the truth, even though the first time, it's against his very own brother, and now the second time, against his cousin. Courage. ~”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[clounsel are allowed wide latitude during the scope of their closing arguments, and a prosecutor may comment on all of the evidence in the record and suggest reasonable inferences from that evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Osterling v. State · Dixon v. State“was arguing reasonable inferences, drawn from evidence introduced at trial, that [the witness's] testimony could be seen as reliable.”
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.