State v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2023
20 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Carnegie v. United States · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adverse pretrial publicity may endanger the ability of a defendant to receive a fair trial in situations where prospective jurors read or hear the adverse publicity and are affected in their judgment should they later sit as jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bodine · State v. Pepper
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.