State v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
215 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Lawrence (2012), Dogwood Development & Management Co. LLC v. White Oak Transport Co. (2008)
215 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. Odom · Sullivan v. United States · Beal v. Franklin · United States v. McCaskill · State v. Banks
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plain error rule ... is always to be applied cautiously and only in the exceptional case where, after reviewing the entire record, it can be said the claimed error is a “fundamental error, something so basic, so prejudicial, so lacking in its elements that justice cannot have been done,” or “where [the error] is grave error which amounts to a denial of a fundamental right of the accused,” or the error has “ ‘resulted in a miscarriage of justice or in the denial to appellant of a fair trial’ ” or where the error is such as to “seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings” or where it can be fairly said “the instructional mistake had a probable impact on the jury’s finding that the defendant was guilty.””
35 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCarty · State v. Parlier“Because of the similarity of the requirements limiting the scope of review in Rules 10(b)(1) and 10(b)(2) and the likeness of the rationale for the adoption of the two rules we conclude, and so hold, that the “plain error” rule as applied in Odom to Rule 10(b)(2) applies with equal force to Rule 10(b)(1).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Steen · State v. Blizzard“The requirement expressed in Rule 10 [ (a) ] that litigants raise an issue in the trial court before presenting it on appeal goes "to the heart of the common law tradition and [our] adversary system." This Court has repeatedly emphasized that Rule 10 [ (a) ] "prevent[s] unnecessary new trials caused by errors ... that the [trial] court could have corrected if brought to its attention at the proper time." ... Rule 10 [ (a) ] thus plays an integral role in preserving the efficacy and integrity of the appellate process. We have stressed that Rule 10 [ (a) ](1) "is not simply a technical rule of procedure" but shelters the trial judge from "an undue if not impossible burden."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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