State v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Metheny v. State (2000), State v. Copeland (1996)
28 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 State v. Thomas · State v. Morgan · State v. Bradley · State v. Burnett · State v. Jones
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecutor acknowledged that he had served as a pallbearer at [the victim’s] funeral; that he and the law firm of which he was a member had represented [the victim] personally and in his business [for years]; that at the time of the trial he was representing [the victim’s wife] in an estate matter; [and] that he had visited the [victim’s] home socially and hunted with [the victim]....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adkins 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.