Merritte v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 1994
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maldonado v. State · Swope v. State · ANTROBUS v. State · Norton v. State · Morgan 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was not intended as, nor could it reasonably be taken to be, an inference the prosecutor had some special knowledge unrevealed to the jury that pointed more decisively to appellants' guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roller v. State“I don't have to be here in court if I don't believe these men are guilty. It's my decision whether to take somebody to trial or not, and I'm here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roller v. State“no more than a statement of [his] conclusions based on the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roller 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.