State v. Jefferies’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Keaton Ex Rel. Foster v. GREENVILLE HOSP. (1999), State v. Foust (1996)
45 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 · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Arizona v. Fulminante · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must review the facts the jury actually heard and weigh those facts against the erroneous jury charge to determine what effect, if any, it had on the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Otts“In making a harmless error analysis, our inquiry is not what would the verdict have been had the jury been given the correct charge, but rather did the erroneous charge contribute to the verdict rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Cherry“At * common law, crimes generally were classified as requiring either 'general intent' or 'specific intent.' This venerable distinction, however, has been the source of a good deal of confusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. King
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.