Cannon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Thompson v. State (1999), McKay v. State (1985)
113 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 Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · California v. Arizona · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Adams v. Texas · Page v. Work
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a patently egregious argument might be rendered harmless by other attributes of the case such as overwhelming evidence or the failure of the argument to touch a material issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cook v. State““(1) summation of the evidence; (2) reasonable deduction from the evidence; (3) answer to argument of opposing counsel; and (4) plea for law enforcement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moreno v. State“when viewing the totality of the facts and the arguments of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook 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.