State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4,686 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,733 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), Engle v. Isaac (1982)
19 federal appellate · 4,686 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 Davis v. Alaska · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Williams
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · State v. Barnes · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley
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 4,733 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be taken with the utmost caution, under exceptional circumstances and only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
553 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]lain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
145 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]n appeal, a party may not assign as error the giving or the failure to give any instructions unless the party objects before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating specifically the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
9 later decisions 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.