Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2012
7 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 Harrison v. State · Brannum v. State · Barger v. State · Hall v. State · Concepcion 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, any additional instruetion to the jury once deliberations have begun is impermissible. This general prohibition exists to protect against giving special emphasis, inadvertent or otherwise, to a particular issue and to guard against the possibility that the additional instruction of the jury might suggest a resolution to an issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State“The path is extremely hazardous for the court that would depart from the body of final instructions and do other than reread the final instructions in responding to jury questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State“(tlhe better procedure would have been for the trial court to reread all of the instructions at the same time the supplemental instruction was read to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hero 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.