State v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), Small v. Commissioner of Correction (2008)
72 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. Golding · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · State v. Asherman
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We reverse the judgment of the trial court as to the capital felony count, affirm the judgment of conviction on the remaining counts and remand the case for sentencing on the felony murder convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“had no reasonable ground to believe that [Tarver] intended to engage in conduct likely to result in death or serious physical injury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . when viewed in the context of the charge as a whole, the court's instruction as to reasonable doubt was in accord with precedent and did not constitute a clear violation of the defendant's fundamental constitutional rights nor deprive him of a fair trial.”
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.