State v. Pelletier’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. John (1989), State v. Booth (1999)
102 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 Bruton v. United States · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Jones v. Barnes · Murphy v. Florida · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legal contentions, like the currency, depreciate through over-issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“utterly corrupted by press coverage. Murphy v. Florida , 421 U.S. 794 , 798 , 95 S.Ct. 2031 , 2035 , 44 L.Ed.2d 589 (1975); see State v. Townsend , 211 Conn. 215 at 226-27, 558 A.2d 669 (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“torrent of claimed error ... serves neither the ends of justice nor the defendant's own purposes as possibly meritorious issues are obscured by the sheer number of claims”
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.