State v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Henry v. Purnell (2011), State v. Bixby (2010)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Ross v. Oklahoma · State v. Baccus · State v. Copeland · State v. Shuler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this State, the conduct of a criminal trial is left largely to the sound discretion * of the [trial court] and [an appellate] court will not interfere unless it clearly appears that the rights of the complaining party were abused or prejudiced in some way .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“[i]n criminal cases, an appellate court reviews errors of law only and is bound by the factual findings of the trial court unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bixby“An abuse of discretion occurs when a trial court's decision is unsupported by the evidence or controlled by an error of law .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.