State v. Alford’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Trull (1998)
94 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · State v. Odom · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · David W. McKay v. Texas · State v. Hennis
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where evidence is admitted over objection and the same evidence has been previously admitted or is later admitted without objection, the benefit of the objection is lost.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““the standard of review to determine whether the trial court should have intervened ex mero mo tu is whether the allegedly improper argument was so prejudicial and grossly improper as to interfere with defendant’s right to a fair trial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murillo · State v. McNeill“So I charge that if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the alleged date the defendant intentionally killed the victim with a deadly weapon and that this proximately caused the victim’s death, and that the defendant intended to kill the victim, and that he acted with malice after premeditation and with deliberation, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation. However, if you do not so find or have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, you would not run [sic] a verdict of guilty of-first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation. Whether or not you find the defendant guilty of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation, you will also consider whether he is guilty of first-degree murder under the first-degree felony murder rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burgess
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.