State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 299 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), State v. Garner (1995)
2 federal appellate · 299 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · State v. Jenks · Ohio v. Roberts
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a defendant `speculates that the grand jury testimony might have contained material evidence or might have aided his cross examination . . . by revealing contradictions,' the trial court does not abuse its discretion by finding the defendant *Page 6 had not shown a particularized need.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“nonconstitutional error is harmless if there is substantial other evidence to support the guilty verdict”
3 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.