State v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2002
15 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 Dobbert v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Ravenell · State v. Belt · State v. Bad Heart Bull · State v. Kindvall
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testimony of an informer who provides evidence against a Defendant for pay, or for immunity from punishment, or for personal advantage or vindiction, must be examined and weighed by the jury with greater care than the testimony of an ordinary witness, the jury must determine whether the informer’s testimony has been effected by interest, or by prejudice against Defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith““Homicide is murder when perpetrated without authority of law and with a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed or of any other human being.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.