State v. Guster’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
240 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Cook (1992), State v. Broom (1988)
240 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. Telfaire · Prestidge v. United States · Roberts v. Ohio · Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. v. Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. · State v. Nelson
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court's instructions to the jury should be addressed to the actual issues in the case as posited by the evidence and the pleadings.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“in large measure on whether a resolution by the jury of the disputed issues in the case requires or will be clearly assisted by the instruction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court is not required in all criminal cases to give a jury instruction on eyewitness identification where the identification of the defendant is the crucial issue in the case and is uncorroborated by other evidence. A trial court does not abuse its discretion in deciding that the factual issues do not require, and will not be assisted by, the requested instructions, and that the issue of determining identity beyond a reasonable doubt is adequately covered by other instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.