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CUYLER v. the STATE.’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Drinkard v. Walker · Cain v. State · Chapman v. State · Holmes v. State

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Despite the benefits of joinder, it is clear that an accused's right to a fair trial takes precedence. If the consolidation of defendants at trial hinders a fair determination of each defendant's guilt or innocence, then the defendants must be tried separately.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “clearly that [he or she] will be prejudiced by a joint trial, and in the absence of such a showing, the trial court's denial of a severance motion will not be disturbed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[Because] the grant or denial of a motion to sever is left to the discretion of the trial court, its ruling will be overturned only for an abuse of discretion.”
    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.