State v. Corbett’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Johnson (2008), State v. Brown (2012)
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 Crawford v. Washington · Manson v. Brathwaite · In re Disbarment of Morrison · State v. Artis · International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 406 v. Guidry
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Each of the times the prosecutor used the phrase 'we know,' he was talking about uncontroverted evidence. The phrase 'we know' does not indicate his personal opinion, but demonstrates that the evidence was uncontroverted. Thus, the use of the phrase 'we know' under these facts is not improper. Likewise, each of the times the prosecutor used the phrase 'I/we submit,' he used the phrase to advance an idea for the jury's consideration rather than expressing a personal opinion. Thus, the prosecutor's use of the phrase 'I/we submit' was not improper." State v. Corbett , 281 Kan. 294 , 315-16, 130 P.3d 1179 (2006).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Charles · State v. King“'expressions of personal opinion by the prosecutor are a form of unsworn, unchecked testimony, not commentary on the evidence of the case.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mireles · State v. Peppers“A conviction for the gravest crime may be sustained by circumstantial evidence, which is any evidence that tends to prove a fact in issue by proving other events or circumstances which afford a basis for a reasonable inference by the jury of the occurrence of the fact in issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Douglas · State v. Alston
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.