State v. Thiel’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Steffes (1993), State v. Harmon (1998)
42 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 Griffin v. California · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Finch v. Connor
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, the prosecutor’s remarks were made in response to defense counsel’s argument to the jury concerning theories of self-defense and defense of others which defense counsel knew were not to be submitted to the jury. While two improper arguments do not make for a right result, an ‘invited response’ is a proper consideration in determining whether a prosecutor’s conduct affected the fairness of the trial. See [United States v. Young, 470 U.S. 1, 11 , 105 S.Ct. 1038, 1044 , 84 L.Ed.2d 1 (1985) ]; cf. State v. Schimmel, 409 N.W.2d 335 (N.D.1987); State v. Piper, 261 N.W.2d 650, 656 (N.D.1977).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“In determining on appeal whether the jury should have been charged on a particular defense [requested], we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiedrich“our standard of review is that the challenged remarks must constitute `obvious error which affects substantial rights of the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harmon
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.