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State v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Alexander (1991), State v. Sims (1991)

45 state decisions

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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 Faretta v. California · State v. Roper · State v. Lynn · Toole v. Salter · Associate Management, Inc. v. E. D. Sauls Construction Co.

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Evidence is relevant if it tends to establish or to make more or less probable some matter in issue upon which it directly or indirectly bears.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Grace · State v. Patterson
  2. “The Sixth Amendment rights to notice, confrontation, and compulsory process guarantee that a criminal charge may be answered through the calling and interrogation of favorable witnesses, the cross-examination of adverse witnesses, and the orderly introduction of evidence.... The Amendment essentially "constitutionalizes" the right to present a defense in an adversary criminal trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Grace
  3. “this Court will not review alleged error of the exclusion of testimony unless a proffer of testimony is properly made on the record”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Smalls 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.