State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Allen (2006), State v. Alexander (1994)
48 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Carter v. Kentucky · Comfort v. California · State v. Covington
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] request for an instruction at the charge conference is sufficient compliance with the rule to warrant our full review on appeal where the requested instruction is subsequently promised but not given, notwithstanding any failure to bring the error to the trial judge's attention at the end of the instructions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the] defendant requested, and the trial judge indicated he would give, a jury instruction concerning defendant’s decision not to testify in his own defense at trial. Yet, the transcript reveals, and the parties agree, that for whatever reason — perhaps the tension associated with any capital murder trial — the trial judge neglected to give the requested and promised jury instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party may not assign as error any portion of the jury charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict...; provided, that opportunity was given to the party to make the objection out of the hearing of the jury, and, on request of any party, out of the presence of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardy
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.