State v. Tarafa’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2014
14 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 Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · State v. Kuhnley · State v. Troy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable juror could have been left in a quandary as to whether to follow the so-called explanatory instruction or the immediately preceding one it contradicted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crowley“called to the juror's attention matters which they would not be justified in considering in reaching a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Calliham“'no way of knowing which of the ... irreconcilable instructions the jurors applied in reaching their verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crowley
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.