State v. Needham’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 district · 13 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · State v. Sugar · In Re Review of Opinion No. 569 of the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics · State v. Galati · In Re Abrams
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the public could conclude that [the] officer [ ] may have unfairly aided defendant, that [the attorney] is not cross-examining [the] officer [ ] as vigorously as he would if there were no relationship between them, or that [the attorney] is using confidential information during his cross-examination of [the] officer [ ].”
1 later decision 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.