State v. Younger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2018
20 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Hasting · United States v. Quinto · State v. Logue · State v. Michalek
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Prejudicial error' for purposes of determining whether error constitutes grounds for mistrial is error `which in all probability must have produced some effect upon the jury's verdict and is harmful to the substantial rights of the party assigning it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Larson · State v. Mitchell“declare a belief beyond a reasonable doubt that the error[s were] harmless and did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Young · State v. Berget“`We also note that when evidence admitted at trial is cumulative only and other admissible evidence supports conviction, the cumulative evidence though inadmissible is not prejudicial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devall
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.