Van Arsdall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Jones v. State (1999), Sherman v. Smith (1996)
1 federal appellate · 52 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused hath a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, to be plainly and fully informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to meet the witnesses in their examination face to face, to have compulsory process in due time, on application by himself, his friends or counsel, for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury; he shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor shall he be deprived of life, liberty or property, unless by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan v. State“testimony, standing alone, appears to have established nothing with regard to the fact of Van Arsdall's presence at the scene of the crime which could have had an effect on the jury's verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark“Van Arsdall himself admitted at trial that he had returned [to the crime scene]” and therefore the tainted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Capano 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.