Bechtel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Williams v. State (2001), Conoyer v. State (1997)
28 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 United States v. Young · Randolph v. Collectramatic, Inc. · Stout v. State · Tobler v. State · Chandler 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has held that where there is no error present, there can be no accumulation of error. However, when there have been numerous irregularities during the course of the trial that tend to prejudice the rights of the defendant, reversal will be required if the cumulative effect of all the errors was to deny the defendant a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“personal belief or opinion as to the truth or falsity of any testimony,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carol v. State · Rojem v. State“(Tr. III 869) Such discourteous, disrespectful, and disgraceful conduct on the part of District Attorney Suttle is degrading to our system of justice and is totally inexcusable. Such behavior is in derogation of the Oklahoma Code of Professional Responsibility, DR 7-106(C)(6), which provides that an attorney shall not engage”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rojem 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.