Postell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Keen v. State (2000), 674 So. 2d 114 - Wilding v. State (1996)
72 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 United States v. Wade · Capital Assistance Corp. v. United States · State v. Bankston · Jackson v. Fogg · Collins 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the inescapable inference from testimony [concerning a tip received by police] is that a non-testifying witness has furnished the police with evidence of the defendant's guilt, the testimony is hearsay, and the defendant's right of confrontation is defeated, notwithstanding that the actual statements made by the non-testifying witness are not repeated.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that the prosecutor's argument urged the jury to draw this very inference merely exacerbates the problem.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“That the absent `witness' [as in this case] happens to be a co-defendant who does not testify at trial is inconsequential. See also State v. Niesbbalski, 82 N.J.L. 177 , 83 A. 179 (1912) (testimony that defendant was arrested upon information received from two co-defendants violated defendant's right to confrontation where necessary inference was that co-defendants had implicated defendant); State v. Johnson, 538 S.W.2d 73 (Mo. App. 1976) (testimony that immediately after speaking to co-defendant, officer arrested defendant, `just as much hearsay and objectionable as the implicating statement itself would have been,' deprived defendant of right of confrontation).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Molina 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.