State v. Milliken’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1995
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 Williams v. Florida · Baldwin v. New York Williams · State v. Galloway · State v. Eads · State v. Evans
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.
“The evil attendant upon instructions such as [set out above] is that they tend to lead a jury to disassociate the evidence thus emphasized from all other evidence they are duty bound to consider. The proper practice is to give a general instruction . . . applicable to all witnesses alike.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright
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.