State v. Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably In the Interest of Doe (2002), Chun v. Bd. of Trustees of ERS (2000)
52 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Neder v. United States · Jones v. Barnes · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch · Connolly v. Burt
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may recognize plain error when the error committed affects substantial rights of the defendant.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Paulino · State v. Coles“[p]lain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McGhee. · State v. Paulino“... We answer questions of constitutional law “by exercising our own independent judgment based on the facts of the case.” State v. Trainor, 83 Hawai'i 250, 255 , 925 P.2d 818, 823 (1996) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted); State v. Lee, 83 Hawai'i 267, 273 , 925 P.2d 1091, 1097 (1996) (citation, internal quotation marks, and brackets omitted). Thus, we review questions of constitutional law under the “right/wrong” standard. See State v. Toyomura, 80 Hawai'i 8, 15 , 904 P.2d 893, 900 (1995) (citing State v. Higa, 79 Hawai'i 1, 3 , 897 P.2d 928, 930 (1995), and State v. Gaylord, 78 Hawai'i 127, 137 , 890 P.2d 1167, 1177 (1995)); State v. Baranco, 77 Hawai'i 351, 355 , 884 P.2d 729, 733 (1994) (issue whether defendant’s constitutional right against double jeopardy would be violated unless indictment dismissed is question of law, reviewed under right/wrong standard); In re [John] Doe, Born on January 5, 1976, 76 Hawai'i 85, 93 , 869 P.2d 1304, 1312 (1994) (whether speech is protected by first amendment to United States Constitution is applied to states through fourteenth amendment and by article I, section 4 of Hawai'i Constitution are questions freely reviewable on appeal).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Paulino · State v. Gomes
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.