State v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2019
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 Rhode Island v. Innis · Thomas v. State · State v. Burke · State v. Boudreau · State v. Anthony
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.
“In the absence of any indication that the jury was not capable of complying with the trial justice[']s cautionary instruction, this [c]ourt must assume that the jury did disregard the witness comments as it was instructed to do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Conclusion For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we affirm the judgment of conviction. The record may be remanded to the Superior Court. The board itself was two inches by two-and-three-quarter inches wide, just over forty-three inches long, and weighed approximately three pounds. Rule 30 of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure provides in part:”
1 later decision 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.