21 Ariz. App. 133 - State v. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1998
21 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 Sullivan v. State of Arizona · State v. Gonzales · State v. Eisenstein · State v. Hardin · State v. Burnetts
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The best rule for determining whether remarks made by counsel in criminal cases are so objectionable as to cause a reversal of the case is, Do the remarks call to the attention of the jurors matters which they would not be justified in considering in determining their verdict, and were they, under the circumstances of the particular case, probably influenced by those remarks.” 47 Ariz. at 238 , 55 P.2d at 317 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any one of the improper statements taken alone might not have warranted a mistrial, but the cumulative effect was highly prejudicial with a strong probability that the statements influenced the jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hughes
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.