Etter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Drew v. State (1987), State v. Gonzalez (1993)
30 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. Nobles · Rogers v. United States · Boulware v. Texas · Cherb v. State · Whitmore 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the newly-discovered evidence was unknown to him at the time of his trial; (2) his failure to discover the evidence was not due to his want of diligence; (3) the materiality of the evidence is such as would probably bring about a different result in another trial; and (4) the evidence is admissible and not merely cumulative, corroborative, collateral, or impeaching.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. State · Drew 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.