Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Gardner v. State (1988), Parker v. State (1987)
128 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 State v. Foust · Kiefer v. State · State v. Banks · Hill v. State · Osslo v. California
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promoting a general rule of admissibility that essentially allows automatic acceptance of all photographs of the victim and crime scene the prosecution can offer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Camargo v. State · Harvey v. State“Prosecutors as well as trial courts must exercise their discretion in the use of gruesome photographs. The statement that “the State had the right to prove its case up to the hilt in whatever manner it chose,” must be read to mean only that the State may present ample evidence to prove every element of the crime_ Prosecutors are not given a carte blanche to introduce every piece of admissible evidence if the cumulative effect of such evidence is inflammatory and unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“The fact that photographs are inflammatory is not alone sufficient reason to exclude them. [Citations omitted.] Inflammatory pictures are “admissible in the discretion of the trial judge, if they tend to shed light on any issue or are useful to enable a witness to better describe the objects portrayed or the jury to better understand the testimony, or to corroborate testimony.” [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford 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.