State v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2016
21 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 State v. Fortes · State v. Marini · State v. McGranahan · State v. Tiernan · State v. O'ROURKE
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Most of these factors are multidimensional and require a trial justice to reflect upon a variety of subsidiary factors. *** For example, with respect to the element of rehabilitation, a trial justice may consider a ‘defendant’s attitude toward society, his sense of remorse, as well as his inclination and capacity to take his place as an honest and useful member of society.’ *** Likewise, a defendant’s giving of false testimony may be probative of his attitude toward society and consequently his prospects for rehabilitation.” State v. Tiernan, 645 A.2d 482, 485 (R.I.1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ciolli
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.