State v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Rumore (1992), State v. Hamilton (1993)
32 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 Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Golding · Kahn v. Grant · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the presence of the jury, we cannot say that such statements were so significant, and the harm to the defendant so substantial, as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial and an impartial tribunal. In our view, the court's statements did not imply that the court found J a credible witness or that the defendant had done anything wrong, but were, rather, an attempt by the court to elicit testimony from a young witness who was noticeably nervous while testifying. Moreover, in its instructions to the jury, the court cured any potential misapprehensions by stating that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] trial court has a discretionary right to intervene in the examination of witnesses where such intervention is necessary to clarify confusing testimony, restrain an obstreperous witness, or elucidate a witness' understanding of a question”
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.