State v. Worthy’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
November 2008
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Benson · Smith v. North Carolina · State v. Green · State v. Pinch · State v. Monk
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o reach the level of `prejudicial error' in this regard . . . the prosecutor's comments must have `so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.'”
5 later decisions 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.