Ambles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Powell v. State (1998), Phagan v. State (1997)
58 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 Jackson v. Denno · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any right of the victim to testify in a criminal trial is necessarily subject to the prosecutor's discretion. ... Neither is there any unqualified right of the state to obtain the testimony of the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“having a value so essential to individual liberty in our society that [its] infringement merits careful scrutiny by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell 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.