State v. Arther’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
17 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Estelle v. Smith · Lockhart v. McCree · State v. Plath · State v. Adams
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While information concerning a prior criminal conviction is admissible as additional evidence during the sentencing phase, . . . information regarding a formal charge that was ultimately dismissed by the prosecutor is irrelevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young“"Remorse. You've heard the evidence. You know what happened. Remorse. Did he say, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it. I didn't appreciate the criminality of my conduct at the time ... Have you heard that from him?"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arther“Appellant further contends and we agree that he was unfairly prejudiced by the solicitor's comment in closing argument regarding his failure to testify during the penalty phase. The solicitor stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arther
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.