State v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
May 2024
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Caron · State v. Griller · State v. Wahlberg · State v. Ramey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prosecutors are allowed to argue that there is no merit to the specific defense raised by the defendant, although they may not belittle either the defendant or a particular defense in the abstract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Waiters“as a whole, rather than just selective phrases or remarks that may be taken out of context or given undue prominence to determine whether reversible error has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Waiters
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.