Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Collins (1983), United States v. Kimberlin (1986)
10 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley · State v. Hurd · LeDuc v. Florida · State Ex Rel. Collins v. SUPERIOR COURT, ETC. · Commonwealth v. Nazarovitch
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“5.1 Materials to jury room. (a) The court in its discretion may permit the jury, upon retiring for deliberation, to take to the jury room a copy of the ... exhibits and writings which have been received in evidence, except depositions. (b) Among the considerations which are appropriate in the exercise of this discretion are: (i) whether the material will aid the jury in a proper consideration of the case; (ii) whether any party will be unduly prejudiced by submission of the material; and (iii) whether the material may be subjected to improper use by the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. State · Robinson v. State““In every case, the trier of fact must be presented with sufficient evidence to be able to judge the reliability of the witness’s perception of the events before the hypnosis session, the manner in which the hypnosis procedure was conducted, and the degree to which the witness’s statements were changed by the hypnosis statement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State“[The hypnotized individual is not only more easily influenced but is also more highly motivated to please others, ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton 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.