Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Davasher v. State (1992), Free v. State (1987)
29 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 Clark 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I believe you acknowledged to [defense counsel] that in 1968 you pled guilty and were convicted of the raping of an eleven-year-old girl[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Honey v. State · Free v. State“say that in the circumstances the admonition cured the possibility of prejudice. The prosecutor's action must have been deliberate, for he could not reasonably have believed that Maxwell had admitted the inadmissible and prejudicial fact that he had raped an eleven-year-old child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Honey v. State“We cannot establish a precedent that a deliberately unfair tactic such as the one before us can be made harmless by anything less than a reprimand in the presence of the jury or by the granting of a mistrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Honey 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.