State v. Nomeland’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2005
5 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 Griffin v. California · Kennedy v. Powell · State v. Jefferson · Russell v. State · Mosby 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor has the duty and right to argue the case based on the “total picture shown by the evidence or the lack thereof,” including reference to the paucity or absence of evidence adduced by the defense. But prosecutorial comment on a defendant’s refusal to testify may violate a defendant’s privilege against self-incrimination. Thus, a prosecutor commits constitutional error when his statement is “manifestly intended or [is] of such character that a jury would naturally and necessarily construe it to amount to a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.””
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.