State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Lloyd (2001)
34 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 Segura v. United States · Morgan v. Illinois · United States v. Alaska · Wilson v. Arkansas · Mu'Min v. Virginia
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State bears the burden of proving that a defendant made a knowing and intelligent waiver of his rights and that his statement was voluntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the potential jurors’ responses to questions on voir dire are the best evidence of whether pretrial publicity was prejudicial or inflammatory. If each juror states unequivocally that he or she can set aside pretrial information about a defendant’s guilt and arrive at a determination based solely on the evidence presented at trial, the trial court does not err in refusing to grant a change of venue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“briefly inform the prospective jurors, as to each defendant, of the charge, the date of the alleged offense, the name of any victim alleged in the pleading, the defendant's plea to the charge, and any affirmative defense of which the defendant has given pretrial notice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.