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Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

78
cited by 78 later decisions
1
states following
March 2011
most recently cited

78 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Gardner v. State (1988), Berry v. State (1986)

78 state decisions

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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 Government of Virgin Islands v. Lake · State v. Upton · Hill v. State · Bruder v. State · Rivers v. United States

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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “. . . However inflammatory they may be, they are admissible in the discretion of the trial judge, if they tend to shed light on any issue or are useful to enable a witness to better describe the objects portrayed or the jury to better understand the testimony or to corroborate testimony . . Perry v. State, 255 Ark. 378, 381 , 500 S.W.2d 387, 390 (1973).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sumlin v. State · Parker v. State
  2. “We agree with appellant that these admitted should have been rejected if their sole effect was to inflame the passions of the jurors against him. **** Otherwise, the admission and relevancy of photographs are matters resting largely in the discretion of the trial judge. **** An objection that photographs tend to inflame or prejudice the jury is not valid, if they are otherwise properly admissible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Witham 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.