State v. Otte’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 302 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 314 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), State v. Leonard (2004)
12 federal appellate · 302 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Carroll v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · State v. Bradley
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 314 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A suspect's decision to waive his privilege against self-incrimination is made voluntarily, absent evidence that his will is overborne and his capacity for self-determination was critically impaired because of coercive police conduct.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]rial counsel need not cross-examine every witness; indeed, doing so can backfire. * * * The strategic decision not to cross-examine witnesses is firmly committed to trial counsel's judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“so intoxicated as to be mentally unable to intend anything.”
4 later decisions 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.