Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Wall v. State (1998), Pye v. State (1998)
76 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 Lockhart v. Nelson · Williams v. State · Smith v. State · Gunter v. State · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Saul
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before evidence of prior difficulties or quarrels can be presented to a jury, the trial court must conduct a hearing pursuant to Uniform Superior Court Rule 31.3(B) just as it must do with respect to independent offenses or acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Uniform Superior Court Rule 31.1 requires the [S]tate to provide defendant with notice of its intent to present evidence of similar transactions or occurrences, including evidence of prior difficulties between defendant and the victim, at least ten days before trial, unless the trial court lengthens or shortens the notice time. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrett v. State“should be received with care and should not be admitted at all if there is no probative connection with the present case....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheppard 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.