State v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Copas (2000), State v. Camacho (2007)
196 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 Bruton v. United States · Bourjaily v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Dutton v. Evans · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether to consolidate or sever the trials of defendants involved in the same criminal incident lies within the sound discretion of the trial court. . . . Ordinarily justice is better subserved where parties are tried together. . . . Joint trials of persons jointly indicted or informed against are the rule, and separate trials the exception resting in the discretion of the court. . . . A separate trial will be ordered where the defenses of the accused are antagonistic, or evidence will be introduced against one which will not be admissible against others, and it clearly appears that a joint trial will probably be prejudicial to the rights of one or more of the accused. . . . [T]he phrase prejudicial to the rights of the [accused] means something more than that a joint trial will probably be less advantageous to the accused than separate trials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen ... the jury can reasonably accept the core of the defense offered by either defendant only if it rejects the core of the defense offered by his codefendant .... To compel severance the defenses must be antagonistic to the point of being irreconcilable and mutually exclusive. ... Such compelling prejudice does not arise where the conflict concerns only minor or peripheral matters which are not at the core of the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When Valentin called to say that Wattley was on his way, the four men left the building and went outside. [The petitioner] and Brown went to the north side of the building while Smith and Booth went to the south side and hid behind a bush. While they were waiting, Booth was talking on a cellular telephone to either Brown or [the petitioner]. After approximately fifteen minutes, a car arrived and Wattley got out. Wattley walked toward the north end of the building, where Brown and [the petitioner] were waiting. Smith and Booth then entered the building on the south side and began to ascend the stairs. When Smith and Booth reached the third floor, where Valentin's apartment was located, they heard gunshots below. Smith and Booth then ran to exit the building. As they descended the stairs, they saw Wattley lying face down in the second floor hallway with blood everywhere. Booth then stabbed Wattley a couple of times before Smith and Booth fled the building.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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