State v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. Smith (1979), State v. Haddenham (1990)
72 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Dennis v. United States · Britt v. North Carolina · State v. Zarafonetis · United States of America Ex Rel. Kelly Wilson v. The Hon. Daniel McMann Warden, Clinton State Prison, Dannemora, N.Y.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It is not] realistic to assume that the trial court's judgment as to the utility of material for impeachment or other legitimate purposes, however conscientiously made, would exhaust the possibilities. In our adversary system, it is enough for judges to judge. The determination of what may be useful to the defense can properly and effectively be made only by an advocate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valles v. State“"It has long been recognized that a transcript of prior testimony is a most useful tool in mounting an attack upon the credibility of witnesses. [citation omitted] The refusal to give a copy of the grand jury testimony of witnesses who would also testify at trial on the same subject matter has been held to deny a defendant the right of effective cross-examination."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valles v. State“Matters outside the record present no issue for review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wood
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.