Pirnat v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
June 2008
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Griffith v. Kentucky · Lannan v. State · Daniels v. State · Rouster 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Defendants with pending appeals] receive the benefit of review under the new rule for the basic reason that they ought not be penalized merely because we chose another pending case as the vehicle for announcing the change of an evidentiary rule."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Posey v. State · Ried 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.