State v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably State v. Bey (1988), State v. Martin (1990)
93 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 Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Bollenbach v. United States · Sparf v. United States
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the heart of the guarantee of a fair trial is the `jury's impartial deliberations upon the guilt of a criminal defendant based solely upon the evidence in accordance with proper and adequate instructions * * *.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bridges · State v. Ragland“[E]rroneous instructions on matters or issues material to the jury's deliberations are presumed to be reversible error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[a]ppropriate and proper charges to a jury are essential for a fair trial,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.