Phelps v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Beasley v. State (1977), Buttram v. State (1978)
30 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Ristaino v. Ross · Maldonado v. State · White v. State · Swope 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Well, do you think it might have been in your best interests to have told the police and the Prosecutor's Office this story you're telling this jury?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Duckworth“testified during the same sequence of questions that he had protested his innocence to the police on at least two occasions after his apprehension.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Duckworth“[t]here's nothing in the law that says he's innocent or he wouldn't be here,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Duckworth
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.