State v. Cepeda’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Meehan (2002), State v. King (1999)
39 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's uncle went into the house, came out with a small grayish-black handgun and fired a shot toward the victim. During this melee, the uncle approached the victim's brother, who was being held down on the ground by the defendant's brothers Frank and Luis, and pointed the gun at his head. Barker moved into the street, and pushed the uncle with the gun away from the victim's brother. As she did so, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[R]ebuttal evidence is that which refutes the evidence presented by the defense, rather than that which merely bolsters the [plaintiff's] case. . . . The admission of rebuttal evidence is ordinarily within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
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.