State v. Pokini’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Mu'Min v. Virginia (1991), Aillon v. State (1975)
82 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 · Irvin v. Dowd · Remmer v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Quercia v. United States
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The amount and nature of pretrial publicity directly determine the lengths to which a trial judge must go on voir dire to assess the possibility of prejudice resulting from that publicity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“convicted sex offender.” Other media accounts merely reported statements by the prosecutor (“walking crime wave”) and Pauline’s grandmother (“a liar, a thief and spoiled little brat”). .For example, a reward fund was established which raised over $12,000 from people all over the state. In addition, the legislature introduced an "Ireland bill” to toughen tire state’s murder laws. . The defendants pointed to dozens of newspaper articles, as well as radio and television coverage, concerning the trial. These media accounts included photographs of appellants in handcuffs and reports of their alleged courtroom outbursts. One Honolulu Advertiser article stated that Pokini was "the picture of a slow-witted oaf with barely enough intelligence to tie his own shoelaces.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pauline“An injudicious attitude held and expressed against an attorney is likely to color the judge’s approach to matters in the case entrusted to his [or her] discretion as well as to impress the jury with the idea that he [or she] disfavors the attorney and, inferentially, the position the attorney represents. So serious is the danger to a fair trial posed by a judge’s unwarranted remarks demeaning defense counsel in the presence of the jury, that the law considers them errors of constitutional proportions. The constitutional rights of the defendant compromised by such conduct include the rights to due process of law, assistance of counsel in a criminal prosecution, and trial by an impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fukusaku
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.