Easter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Plummer (2012), Dixon v. State (1992)
33 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 Russell v. United States · Berna v. State · White v. State · Branscomb v. State · Starling v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a lesser included offense has been the subject of an instruction, and the jury convicts of the greater offense, error resulting from failure to give an instruction on another still lesser included offense is cured. [Citations omitted.] This is commonly referred to as ‘the skip rule.’ ” 306 Ark. at 620 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Horn
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.