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← 444 A.2d 404 - State v. Ledger

State v. Ledger’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
July 2021
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Dechaine (1990), State v. Reilly (1982)

37 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] defendant may be mentally competent to stand trial although in some other respects his mind is unsound.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. In re Child of Mercedes D. · State v. Knights
  2. “tends to create a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hassan · State v. Rich
  3. “[t]he trial court committed no abuse of discretion by overruling the defendant’s objection to this testimony on the ground that it created a danger that the jury would rely too heavily on it. The significance of these complaints and threats in proving motive and intent, and the defendant’s opportunity to cross-examine the witness to expose any mitigating circumstances in which they were made, renders the court’s ruling a proper one.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Winslow

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.