State v. Cummins’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Kohl (2000), 2013 UT App 213 - State v. Campos (2013)
29 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 Strickland v. Washington · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Reiter v. Cooper · Indelicato v. United States · Bullock v. Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the actions or remarks of [prosecuting] counsel call to the attention of the jury a matter it would not be justified in considering in deter mining its verdict and, if so, under the circumstances of the particular case, whether the error is substantial and prejudicial such that •there is a reasonable likelihood that, in its absence, there would have been a more favorable result...."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kohl · State v. Saunders“In determining whether a given statement constitutes prosecutorial misconduct, the statement must be viewed in light of the totality of the evidence presented at trial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buck · State v. Akok“However, '[clounsel for both sides have considerably more freedom in closing argument and a right to discuss fully from their standpoints the evidence and the inferences and deductions arising therefrom.'”
2 later decisions 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.