State v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Storey (1995), State v. Johnson (2006)
50 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. Newlon · State v. Tiedt · State v. Murphy · State v. Harris · State v. Morris
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vested with broad discretion in controlling closing argument of counsel. Substantial latitude is allowed in summation, and when manifest injustice is the standard of review [as in the case sub judice], Rule 29.12(b), improper argument will justify reversal only if its effect is decisive on the jury’s determination; and the defendant is saddled with the burden of demonstrating such effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Klaus
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.