Plunkett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 523 So. 2d 562 - Correll v. State (1988), Romano v. State (1995)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California · Charbonier v. United States · Gene David Clay v. Virginia · Bates v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a risk in other areas of scientific evidence is not necessarily present because the scientific expert is often able to explain to the jury how a conclusion was reached, the defense counsel can attack that conclusion, and the jury can decide whether the conclusion has a sound basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williamson v. State“where the offense may be committed by the use of different means, the means may be alleged in the alternative in the same court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. HOLTZCLAW 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.