State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Weeks (1988), State v. Fisher (2003)
3 federal appellate · 72 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Brown v. Board of Education · State v. Ramey · State v. Kennedy · State v. Riddick
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions should ordinarily be for clarification and the trial judge should exercise due care to see that juror questions are so limited.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o be admissible as corroborative evidence, prior consistent statements must corroborate the witness' testimony, ... but the corroborative testimony may contain `new or additional information when it tends to strengthen and add credibility to the testimony which it corroborates.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the propriety of juror questioning of witnesses is within the sound discretion of the trial court.'”
2 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.