State v. Scherzer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Frost (1999), State v. Garron (2003)
6 federal appellate · 127 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Davis v. Alaska · Griffin 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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the age of the victim; (2) circumstances of the questioning; (3) the victim's relationship with the interrogator; and (4) the type of questions asked.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. English v. State · Woyak v. State“the trial judge must make a probing inquiry into the possible prejudice caused by any jury irregularity, relying on his or her own objective evaluation of the potential for prejudice rather than on the jurors' subjective evaluation of their own impartiality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing inherently improper in the use of demonstrative or illustrative evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.