Emmett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley (1982), Timberlake v. State (1980)
8 federal appellate · 61 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · 59 Cal. 2d 722 - People v. Modesto · Berry v. State · Bell v. State · Martin v. Baldwin
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reliability of hypnosis has not been established”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a new trial will not be granted if the only effect of the evidence will be to impeach the credit of a witness”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. State“that the evidence has come to his knowledge since the trial” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State
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.