Livingston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1998
15 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 Alejandro v. State · Smith v. State · Stearn v. State · Hodge v. State · Spaulding 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Is he more likely than not, if he ever hits the streets, again, to commit violent crimes against other citizens? If that is the definition of probability, let’s just look at the evidence in this case which without question shows that it is more than likely he will because of what he has done in the past. “He has done it five times — he has done it five times. And what else he has done, we don’t know about. And what else he has gotten by with, we will never know. “MR. BRADSHAW: I object to that, that is a direct citation to the jury to consider things which are not in evidence. And I request the Court to instruct the jury to disregard that statement. “THE COURT: The objection is sustained. “Members of the jury, you are instructed to disregard that statement. “MR. BRADSHAW: I move for a mistrial, Your Honor. “THE COURT: Your motion for mistrial is denied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Villarreal v. State“While the argument of counsel was not originally transcribed by the court reporter, an informal bill of exception made in the presence of the jury contains the prosecutor’s closing argument as follows: (Thereafter, the part of the argument complained of is set out, together with the defendant’s objection and the trial court’s ruling.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathews 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.