State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 229 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1991), State v. Templin (1990)
1 federal appellate · 228 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 · Godfrey v. Georgia · Maynard v. Cartwright · Geders v. United States · Royall
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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not analyze and address in writing each and every argument, issue, or claim raised”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“this Court need not analyze and address in writing each and every argument, issue, or claim raised.... Rather, it is a maxim of appellate review that the nature and extent of an opinion rendered by an appellate court is largely discretionary with that court. [[Image here]] Use of this rule in capital punishment and other cases continues to be appropriate and important in acknowledging established principles while enabling this Court, after fair and comprehensive review, to expeditiously focus judicial resources and energy on those critical or outcome-determinative issues which may be raised in any given case and/or which have not in substance been previously urged upon this Court and rejected.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ott · Carter v. Galetka“the jury could reasonably believe that the prosecutor was indicating a personal belief in the witness' credibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Thompson
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.