State v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2012
9 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 · State v. Carpenter · 30 Utah 2d 367 - State v. Hodges · 23 Utah 2d 231 - State v. Kelbach · State v. Wilson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[There should be no such reversal merely to criticize a prosecutor who, perhaps in the ardor of advocacy in the trial, oversteps the bounds of propriety, nor merely because error has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maestas“a reasonable likelihood that in its absence there may have been a different result....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harrison
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.