Medlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Sippio v. State (1998), Watson v. State (2004)
34 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. Virginia · Berger v. United States · Smith v. State · Maxwell v. State · Christenson v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the district attorney is required to demonstrate that his questions were asked in good faith, and based on reliable information that can be supported by admissible evidence.'[Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. State“A witness generally is not permitted to express his or her opinion regarding an ultimate issue in the case because to do so would invade the fact-finding province of the jury....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mangrum 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.