State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
144
cited by 144 later decisions
2
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 142 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission · Helvering v. Hallock · Zuber v. Allen · United States v. Shabani · Girouard v. United States
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stare decisis is an important principle that promotes the rule of law, particularly in the context of statutory interpretation, where our incorrect decisions are more easily corrected by the democratic process.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the injury itself constituted the sole proximate cause of the death; or ... (2) the injury directly and materially contributed to the happening of a subsequent accruing immediate cause of the death; or ... (3) the injury materially accelerated the death, although proximately occasioned by a pre-existing cause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Menzies v. State“The decisions of the Supreme Court shall bind all other courts as precedents.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.