State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General (2000), State v. Bland (1997)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · State v. Goodman · Carroll 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the line between harmless and prejudicial error is in direct proportion to the degree of the margin by which the proof exceeds the standard required to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall · State v. Powers“This demonstrates that the jury had clearly in mind the elements necessary to convict of the crime of the felony of robbery and quite properly declined to include it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the procedure did not give rise to a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification and that under the totality of the circumstances, the in-court identification was reliable and independent of any previous suspect identification.”
1 later decision 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.