State v. Belt’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 239 Ga. App. 52 - Buice v. State (1999), Spear v. State (1999)
75 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 Williams v. State · Bacon v. State · Wall 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It falls to the trial court, as the insurer of the defendant's right to a fair and impartial trial before an unbiased jury, to inform the jury of the limited use to which it might put the potentially unfairly prejudicial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It follows that, having failed to request a limiting instruction, defendant cannot assert that the trial court erred because it did not give such an instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sedlak v. State“can be read to require a trial court to give a limiting charge, in the absence of a request, when evidence of prior difficulties is admitted.”
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.