State v. Cornwell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably State v. Johnson (2001), State v. LaMar (2002)
2 federal appellate · 141 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 · State v. Bradley · Wainwright v. Witt · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Smith v. Phillips
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]f the trial court erroneously overrules a challenge for cause, the error is prejudicial only if the accused eliminates the challenged venireman with a peremptory challenge and exhausts his peremptory challenges before the full jury is seated.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young · State v. T.L.“prosecutors can elicit or disclose information about plea agreements `to blunt or foreclose unfavorable cross-examination revealing that [witnesses] agreed to testify in exchange for favorable treatment by the prosecutor.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he conduct of voir dire by defense counsel does not have to take a particular form, nor do specific questions have to be asked.”
3 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.