Squire v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Hutchinson (1980), State v. Bell (1994)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 91 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · American Trading Transportation Co. v. Escobar · Laverick v. United States · 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State · State v. Evans
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent the existence of compelling circumstances, the failure of a defendant to register an objection to a jury instruction pursuant to Rule 756 f[now Rule 757 f] bars our consideration of the matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“take cognizance of and correct any plain error in the instructions, material to the rights of the defendant even though the error was not objected to as provided by section f.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hutchinson“an appellate court may in its discretion in an exceptional case take cognizance of plain error even though the matter was not raised in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.