Barrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Wall v. State (1998), Farley v. State (1995)
32 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 · Williams v. State · Johnson v. State · Cawthon v. State · Stephens 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ithout some sort of probative connection between the prior act and the crime charged, the prejudicial nature of the prior act evidence will outweigh its probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Farley v. State“show that, because of an unconnected act in the accused's past, the accused should be convicted of the present charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stewart 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.