State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
264 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Dennis (1997)
264 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 Strickland v. Washington · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Harrington v. California · Alford v. United States
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extent of cross-examination with respect to an appropriate subject of inquiry is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“to impose reasonable limits on such cross-examination based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness' safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[l]ack of an opportunity to fully cross- No. 15AP-978 24 examine is harmless error when there is overwhelming, untainted evidence supporting a conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Urbina
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.