Saldano v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Mendez v. State (2004), Lo, Ex Parte John Christopher (2013)
4 federal appellate · 135 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 · Carnegie v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Texas v. Brown · Zant v. Stephens
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Each district attorney] shall represent the State in all criminal cases in the district courts of his district ... except in cases where he has been, before his election, employed adversely. ... It shall be the primary duty of all prosecuting attorneys, including any special prosecutors, not to convict, but to see that justice is done.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rights of litigants which must be implemented by the system unless expressly waived.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Joyner v. State · In re H.C.“Marin has been a watershed decision in the law of error-preservation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colone v. State · Modica 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.