BEVER v. STATE’s Empirical Analysis
2020
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Ring v. Arizona
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When measuring the relevancy of evidence against its prejudicial effect, the court should give the evidence its maximum reasonable probative force and its minimum reasonable prejudicial value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“within the context of the entire trial, considering not only the propriety of the prosecutor's actions, but also the strength of the evidence against the defendant and the corresponding arguments of defense counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any tendency to make the existence of a fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.