Britt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2020
16 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 Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Wood v. Georgia · Maness v. Meyers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resolves an issue that is “substantially separate” from the basic issues to be decided at trial, (2) would result in the loss of an important right if review had to await final judgment, and (3) completely and conclusively decides the issue on appeal such that nothing in the underlying action can affect it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect. The orderly and expeditious administration of justice by the courts requires that an order issued by a court with jurisdiction over the subject matter and person must be obeyed until it is reversed by orderly and proper proceedings. Such orders must be complied with promptly and completely, for the alternative would be to frustrate and disrupt the progress of the court proceedings with issues collateral to the central questions in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to reveal the names and pay rates of all experts from [recent] indigent capital cases ... compels the Council to improperly expose the strategies being employed by the attorneys in scores of pending capital cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Putnal 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.