St. John v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bivins v. State (1995), Fair v. State (1993)
30 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Davis v. Alaska · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Newman v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A certain amount of repetition is inherent in the nature of jury instructions. The defendant's substantive rights are not violated by instructions which are to some extent repetitive. (Citation omitted) Instructions become improper only when they "are so repetitious as to place an undue emphasis on a particular point...." (Citation omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“a reasonable likelihood that the judgment of the jury could have been affected by testimony known to be false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“These instructions taken together correctly state the law and do not derogate the presumption of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas 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.