State v. Emmett’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Singh (2002), State v. Maestas (2012)
83 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Indelicato v. United States · Bullock v. Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co. · Farrell v. Massachusetts
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because it is argumentative and seeks information beyond the witness's competence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Palmer · State v. Davis“[O]ur case law establishes that the doctrine of waiver has application if defendants fail to raise claims at the appropriate time at the trial level, so the trial judge has an opportunity to rule on the issue ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Roberts“call[] to the jurors' attention matters which they would not be justified in considering in reaching a verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Palmer · State v. Calliham
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.