State v. Webber’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Joon Kyu Kim (1987), State v. Othoudt (1992)
115 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.
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the state demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that the trial court has erred in its judgment and that, unless reversed, the error will have a critical impact on the outcome of the trial.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlin · State v. Eggler“(1) insufficient as a matter of law, or (2) so weak in its entirety that any possibility of prosecuting such charge to a conviction has been effectively destroyed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schmieg · State v. Kim“to measure the degree of harm to the state that will result from the suppression of evidence ordered after an Omnibus Hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.