State v. Royal’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Weiskerger (1989), Bishop v. State (1999)
69 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 Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Russell · Thornton v. State · Merino v. State · Culberson v. Culberson
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a defendant charges that a confidential informant has entrapped him outside the presence of any other witnesses, Roviaro would ordinarily require disclosure of the informant’s identity, since the defense of entrapment would rest upon allegations which only the informant could confirm or deny.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here exists no ` per se rule that a defendant is entitled to a directed verdict where the informant is not called to rebut the defendant's testimony of entrapment.... (A) defendant's testimony as to entrapment, even if unrebutted by any other witness to the alleged misconduct, will not entitle him to a directed verdict of acquittal unless that unrebutted testimony, together with all reasonable deductions and inferences therefrom, demands a finding that entrapment occurred.' State v. Royal, 247 Ga. 309, 310 ( 275 SE2d 646 ) (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not magically create a viable defense.' [Cit.] `The proper ruling will depend upon the specific facts and circumstances of each individual case.' [Cit.]”
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.