Jensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
16 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Dorsey v. State · Ross v. State · Dykes v. State · Wilson v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an appellant, in a criminal case, establishes error, unless a reviewing court, upon its own independent review of the record, is able to declare a belief, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the error in no way influenced the verdict, such error cannot be deemed “harmless” and a reversal is mandated. Such reviewing court must thus be satisfied that there is no reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of — whether erroneously admitted or excluded— may have contributed to the rendition of the guilty verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“was not testifying as to a particular incident; she was testifying, as a general matter, to [the State's witness's] tendency to tell mutually inconsistent stories, i.e. , his general tendency to be untruthful. Nor was [the character witness's] testimony "no more than a number of specific events tied together." [The character witness] was not testifying as to several particular instances of conduct; she was testifying as to a general behavior pattern [that[ was the basis for her opinion that [the State's witness] was untruthful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devincentz v. State“Where character evidence is otherwise relevant to the proceeding, no person offered as a character witness who has an adequate basis for forming an opinion as to another person's character shall hereafter be excluded from giving evidence based on personal opinion to prove character[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Devincentz v. State
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.