Christian v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Rankin v. State (1997), Doss v. State (2003)
32 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 Henry v. State · Thomas v. State · Stone v. State · Collins v. State · Dollar 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we have not previously had before us a case in which the motion was renewed at the conclusion of the defendant’s case-in-chief but not after rebuttal evidence, the plain language of the rule requires the latter, and we interpret the rule stricdy. Accordingly, we decline to consider the argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grady v. State
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.