State v. Baston’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), State v. Hale (2008)
3 federal appellate · 183 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · Liteky et al United States · State v. Long
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]bsent ' "any showing of bias, prejudice, or prodding of a witness to elicit partisan testimony, it will be presumed that the trial court acted with impartiality [in * * * [its] questions from the bench] in attempting to ascertain a material fact or to develop the truth.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The individual offered as an expert need not have complete knowledge of the field in question, as long as the knowledge he or she possesses will aid the trier of fact in performing its fact-finding function.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“may interrogate witnesses, in an impartial manner, whether called by itself or by a party.”
4 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.