State v. Fenner’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Aponte (1994), State v. Caruolo (1987)
49 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 Estelle v. Williams · State v. Cline · State v. Gilman · State v. Pugliese · State v. Ahmadjian
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"it should be the obligation of a trial justice to inform counsel in advance if he or she intends to advise prospective jurors or jurors who have been selected to serve on a particular case that the defendant is in custody for the purpose of neutralizing any inference that might otherwise be formed. In the event that counsel objects to such an admonition, he or she has an obligation to inform the trial justice forthwith before the admonitions have been given. In such a situation, the trial justice should forego making such a statement to the jurors, but the defendant assumes the risk that by some inadvertence he or she may be seen in the course of being transported from the ACI to the courthouse or otherwise be seen to be in custody in circumstances of which the court might not be aware and in circumstances where this observation might not be called to the attention of either the court or counsel.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doctor v. State · State v. Moosey““[ijndeed, it is probably better practice for a trial justice to avoid giving such instructions in respect either to alibi testimony or to accomplice testimony and to rely instead upon general instructions concerning credibility, motivation, bias, and the like. Counsel rather than the court are the appropriate agents to argue to the jury concerning the specific credi bility or lack thereof of a particular witness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barros · State v. Olink“[i]t is not the function of a trial justice to act as advocate for either the prosecution or the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barros · State v. Sivo
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.