State v. Pendergrass’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2018
9 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 Beck v. Alabama · Rock v. Arkansas · State v. Carter · State v. Knight · State v. Baker
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not sit as a second trier of fact: It is the exclusive function of the jury to weigh the evidence and to determine the credibility of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We defer to the jury because a jury is in the best position to give proper weight to the peripheral nature of any contradictory testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is a sufficient foundation for the expert's opinion.”
1 later decision 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.