Webster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Morgan v. State (1982), Humphrey v. State (1997)
23 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 Burks v. United States · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Patterson v. State · Glover v. State · Easton 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n appeal, [appellate courts] must presume that the jury obeyed the trial court's instructions in reaching its verdict”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we will assume that the jury followed the instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"As such, [trial error] implies nothing with respect to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Rather, it is a determination that a defendant has been convicted through a judicial process which is defective in some fundamental respect.... Where this occurs, the accused has a strong interest in obtaining a fair readju-dication of his guilt free from error, just as society maintains a valid concern for insuring that the guilty are punished . ... "The same cannot be said when a defendant's conviction has been overturned due to a failure of proof at trial, in which case the prosecution cannot complain of prejudice, for it has been given one fair opportunity to offer whatever proof it could assemble. The purposes of the Clause would be negated were we to afford the government an opportunity for the proverbial 'second bite at the apple.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Suits 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.