State v. Esparza’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Mitchell Warden v. Esparza (2003), State v. Waddy (1992)
10 federal appellate · 119 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Gregg v. Georgia
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well-established that ‘where an inherently dangerous instrumentality was employed, a homicide occurring during the commission of a felony is a natural and probable consequence presumed to have been intended. Such evidence is sufficient to allow a jury to find a purposeful intent to kill.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any error [the testimony of defendant's cellmate, which revealed that defendant was being held for another crime when arrested on the instant charges,] may have caused was harmless, given the overwhelming evidence of [defendant's] guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A reviewing court will not reverse a jury verdict where there is substantial evidence upon which a jury could reasonably conclude that all the elements of an offense have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jamison
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.