Cantrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. LeBlanc (1996), 224 Ga. App. 656 - Brewer v. State (1997)
57 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 Romine v. State · 35 Or. App. 91 - State v. Ogden · 73 Ga. App. 573 - Martin v. State · Alexander v. State · Jordan 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhile this case does not involve a unanimity instruction, the end result is the same. By refusing to accept the jury’s verdict of guilty on the possession offense, the court forced the jury to reach unanimous agreement on the [greater offense] before considering the [lesser] offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nicholson“A trial court may instruct a jury to consider a greater offense before it considers a lesser offense. A trial court may not, however, instruct the jury that it must reach a unanimous verdict on the greater offense before considering the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a jury deliberates a greater offense and an included offense, unanimity is not required for the greater offense before the jury can vote on the included offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.