State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Sturdivant (1981), State v. Faust (1961)
123 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 Towne v. Eisner · State v. Simpson · State v. Davenport · State v. . Davenport · State v. . Stone
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bare possibility, however, that an accused may have suffered prejudice from the conduct or language of the judge is not sufficient to overthrow an adverse verdict. The criterion for determining whether or not the trial judge deprived an accused of his right to a fair trial by improper comments or remarks in the hearing of the jury is the probable effect of the language upon the jury. In applying this test, the utterance of the judge is to be considered in the light of the circumstances under which it was made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Best · State v. Locklear“`[J]urors entertain great respect for [a judge's] opinion, and are easily influenced by any suggestion coming from him [or her]. As a consequence, he [or she] must abstain from conduct or language which tends to discredit or prejudice' any litigant in his [or her] courtroom.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is fundamental to due process that every defendant be tried `before an impartial judge and an unprejudiced jury in an atmosphere of judicial calm. '”
2 later decisions 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.