Potts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Drumbarger v. State (1986), Nitz v. State (1986)
1 federal appellate · 55 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 Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · Sandstrom v. Montana · Lawn v. United States · Connecticut v. Johnson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] finding of plain error is ... virtually the equivalent of a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Anderson v. State · Burton v. State“jeopardize the defendant's right to be tried solely on the basis of the evidence presented to the jury; and the prosecutor's opinion carries with it the imprimatur of the Government and may induce the jury to trust the Government's judgment rather than its own view of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rogers v. State“(1) so obvious that it must have been apparent to a competent judge and a competent lawyer even without an objection and (2) so substantially prejudicial that failing to correct it on appeal would perpetuate a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dunkin 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.