State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Cummings (2000), State v. Taylor (2008)
35 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Morgan v. Illinois · Simmons v. South Carolina · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Nebraska v. Wyoming
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[assuming] arguendo that the trial court erred by admitting the statements defendant made after Ledbetter destroyed the waiver form, we hold that the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Before defendant asked to speak off the record, he twice stated that he “went off on” the victim because she slapped him as he tried to rob the store. That voluntary confession, combined with Truelove’s positive identification of defendant as the man in the store shortly before the crime and the other strong circumstantial evidence, makes any error in admitting the remainder of defendant’s confession harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence permits the inference that defendant needed money once the checks stopped ... and decided to commit the robbery to obtain that money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Prosecutors are allowed `wide latitude in the scope of their argument.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.