State v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably California v. Ramos (1983), 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Anderson v. State · Commonwealth v. Williams · Winston v. United States · Commonwealth v. Russ · Sullivan v. State of 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] voluntary statement on the part of the trial court referring to the power of the Board of Pardons ... might make the jury believe that the statement has been made for the express purpose of calling such power to their attention and thus might have a tendency to influence them in their verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. KEOHOKAPU“"* * * The trial court should not in any way attempt to influence the jury in bringing in a verdict either increasing or decreasing the penalty which might otherwise be inflicted. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ballinger v. State
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.