Buford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Conte v. State (2015), Lamb v. State (2008)
58 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 Hinkston v. State · Barrett v. State · Williams v. State · Stout v. State · Utley 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine if the error is slight, we can look to see if the defendant was prejudiced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins 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.