State v. Heald’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2003
9 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. Slorah · State v. Jackson · State v. Pritchett · Farrington v. Maine State Highway Commission · State v. Tomer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Balanced against the interest in giving the jury all reasonable and necessary assistance in understanding and appreciating the significance of the evidence presented in the courtroom must be the fact of trial delay and the potential disruption of propr er trial procedure entailed in possible exposure of the jury to irrelevant and prejudicial information and influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eaton
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.