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Douglas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wicks v. State · Willis v. State · Walton v. Briley · Strom v. State · Johnson v. State

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

  1. “The third Wicks exception applies only when the "error is so flagrant and so highly prejudicial in character as to make it the duty of the court on its own motion to have instructed the jury correctly." Rackley v. State , 371 Ark. 438 , 440, 267 S.W.3d 578 , 580 (2007). Douglas cites no cases in which a jury instruction error has been considered by this court on direct appeal in the absence of an objection and proffer of the instruction in the trial court. We conclude that the circumstances presented here do not warrant application of the third Wicks exception.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “error is so flagrant and so highly prejudicial in character as to make it the duty of the court on its own motion to have instructed the jury correctly.”
    1 later decision 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.