State v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Brown (1987), Dawson v. State (1990)
29 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 United States v. Mechanik · State v. Jalette · Lagenour v. State · State v. Mancini · Gilliam 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant objects to a remark as prejudicial, the trial justice is obliged to evaluate the potential prejudice of the statement or question on the outcome of the case by examining the statement in its factual context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaudreau“[P]rejudice exists when the challenged comment or question `so inflames the passions of the jury as to prevent their calm and dispassionate examination of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaudreau
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.