21 Utah 2d 113 - State v. Poe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Chapple (1983), 165 W. Va. 588 - State v. Clawson (1980)
1 federal appellate · 53 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 State v. Bucanis · Commonwealth v. Ballem · State v. Moore · State v. Johnson · State v. Tyson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The extent and nature of the wound and the atrocity of the crime also were material questions. Clearly, the photographs, though cumulative, served to corroborate the doctor's testimony and were admissible for that purpose. * * * The admission of photographs rests largely in the discretion of the trial court and ordinarily his decision will not be disturbed. We cannot say the court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Initially, it is within the sound discretion of the trial court to determine whether the inflammatory nature of such slides is outweighed by their probative value with respect to a fact in issue. If the latter they may be admitted even though gruesome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on the face of the record and to the manifest prejudice of the accused... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bullock
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.