Pacheco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Collier v. State of Nevada (1985), McGuire v. State (1984)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 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 Berger v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · Estes v. Texas · Rideau v. Louisiana · Holt v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Improper argument is presumed to be injurious. If the case, however, is free from doubt, the appellate court will not reverse. [Cites omitted.] If it is closely contested, the error will be considered prejudicial... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moser v. State“gave heed to the instruction of the court not to form an opinion until the case was finally submitted to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and not expressly intended to arouse community emotions.”
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.