State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Johnson (1979), State v. Hardy (1977)
94 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 · Pope v. Nebraska · Dombrowski v. Pfister · State v. Hankerson · State v. Westbrook
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]rguments of counsel are largely in the control and discretion of the trial judge who must allow wide latitude in the argument of the law, the facts of the case, as well as to all reasonable inferences to be drawn from the facts. (Citations omitted.) Ordinarily we do not review the exercise of the trial judge's discretion in controlling jury arguments unless the impropriety of counsel's remarks is extreme and is clearly calculated to prejudice the jury in its deliberations. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily we do not review the exercise of the trial judge's discretion in controlling jury arguments unless the impropriety of counsel's remarks is extreme and is clearly calculated to prejudice the jury in its deliberations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson“may not place before the jury incompetent and prejudicial matters not admissible in evidence or include in his argument facts not included in the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee
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.