State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Brandelius v. City & County of San Francisco (1957), State v. Menzies (1994)
1 district · 163 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 · North Carolina v. Alford · United States v. Bagley · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Hulsey v. Arkansas
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For an error to require reversal, the likelihood of a different outcome must be sufficiently high to undermine confidence in the verdict.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lamper · State v. Landon“'only if a review of the record persuades the [appellate] court that without the error there was a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable result for the defendant.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grueber · State v. Gardner“Any error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect the substantial rights of a party shall be disregarded.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Speer · State v. Landon
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.