State v. Abraham’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Call (1998)
180 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma · Nebraska v. Wyoming · State v. Odom · Keeble v. United States
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where defendant fails to object to an alleged impropriety in the State’s argument and so flag the error for the trial court, “the impropriety . . . must be gross indeed in order for this court to hold that a trial judge abused his discretion in not recognizing and correcting ex mero motu an argument which defense counsel apparently did not believe was prejudicial when he heard it.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoffman · State v. Moses“It is well settled that 'a valid bill of indictment is essential to the jurisdiction of the trial court to try an accused for a felony.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Tart
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.