State v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Ticknor v. Choice Hotels International, Inc. (2001), State v. Low (2008)
1 federal appellate · 60 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 United States v. Burks · 36 Ill. 2d 483 - The People v. Taylor · 35 Ill. App. 3d 391 - People v. Baer · 3 Utah 2d 70 - State v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Beck
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court may properly give a lesser included offense instruction, even over a defendant's objection, if there is clearly no risk that the defendant will be prejudiced by lack of notice and preparation so as to deprive him of a full and fair opportunity to defend himself.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dyer · State v. Carruth“'Ttlhe existence of contradictory evidence or of conflicting inferences does not warrant disturbing the jury's verdict'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“legally justifiable or excusable under the existing circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dyer · State v. Low
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.