State v. Bankston’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Williams (1988), State v. Marrero (1997)
1 federal appellate · 173 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 Fahy v. Connecticut · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · State v. MacOn · Capital Assistance Corp. v. United States · Connecticut State Board of Parole v. Bey
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he possibility [of an unjust verdict] must be real, one sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt as to whether the error led the jury to a result it otherwise might not have reached.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the hearsay rule is not violated when a police officer explains the reason he approached a suspect or went to the scene of the crime by stating that he did so `upon information received.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the logical implication to be drawn from the testimony leads the jury to believe that a non-testifying witness has given the police evidence of the accused's guilt, the testimony should be disallowed as hearsay.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.