State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. McKnight (1983), Castell v. State (1983)
29 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 Ohio v. Kentucky · Hurt v. State · State v. Shutt · People v. Olsen · Person v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are obvious reasons why[, after deliberations have begun,] the power to reopen a case for additional proof must be exercised with utmost caution. One reason of course is that at some point the trial must come to an end. ... If requests to reopen were casually granted and became routine, the orderly trial process, fundamental to our jurisprudence, would soon erode away. Another consideration, apart from the merits of a predictable trial pattern, is that new evidence introduced during the jury's deliberations is likely to be given ''undue emphasis ... with consequent distortion of the evidence as a whole'' giving rise to the real possibility of prejudice to the party against whom the evidence is offered. ... On the other hand, a procrustean rule arbitrarily cutting off all possibility of submitting any evidence after the jury has retired, would be difficult to reconcile with the concept of the trial as a truth-finding process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton 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.