Waldo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Barnes v. State (1994), Moore v. State (1999)
86 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · Greer v. Miller · United States v. Hale · United States v. Shaw
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]rror in admitting improper evidence may be generally corrected by a withdrawal and an instruction to disregard it except in extreme cases where it appears that the evidence is clearly calculated to inflame the minds of the jury and is of such character as to suggest the impossibility of withdrawing the impression produced on their minds.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Swallow v. State · State v. Lee“1. The nature of the error; 2. The persistence of the prosecution in committing the error; 3. The flagrancy of the violation; 4. The particular instruction given; 5. The weight of the incriminating evidence; and 6. The harm to the accused as measured by the severity of the sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Veteto v. State · Kimball v. State“the ... presumption that an instruction [to disregard] generally will not cure comment on failure of the accused to testify ... has been eroded to the point that it applies only to the most blatant examples. Otherwise, the Court has tended to find the instruction to have force. Even where we have found such comment beyond cure, the Court has nevertheless held it can constitute harmless error in context of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Lewis
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.