State v. Laster’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1995 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), State v. Raspberry (1970)
5 federal appellate · 96 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 Turner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · State v. Tiedt · State v. Tiedt · State v. Nasello · State v. Burton
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been held that so long as a prosecutor stays within the record and its reasonable inferences, he may legitimately argue the necessity of law enforcement as a crime deterrent, and he may argue also that the responsibility for the suppression of crime and the protection of the public rests upon the trial juries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brauch
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.