State v. Ringstad’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
January 2026
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Dunn · State v. Holgate · State v. Ceballos · Commonwealth v. Chambers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an error exists; (2) the error should have been obvious to the [trial] court; and (3) absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“show the existence of a harmful error that should have been obvious to the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the question is not whether the prosecutor's comments were proper, but whether they were so improper that counsel's only defensible choice was to interrupt those comments with an objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reid
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.