State v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Dellinger (2002), State v. Hodges (1997)
37 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Davis v. Alaska · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Smith v. Goguen
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because an assessment of whether a piece of evidence is relevant requires an understanding of the case’s theory and other evidence as well as a familiarity with the evidence in question, appellate courts give great deference to a trial judge’s decision on relevance issues. Often it is stated that a trial court’s decision on relevance will be reversed only for an abuse of discretion....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile the better procedure is to admonish the jury not to place undue emphasis on the supplemental instruction and to consider it in conjunction with the entire charge, it is not necessarily reversible error to fail to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“while the supplemental instruction should have included an admonishment to place no undue emphasis upon it, the main charge to the jury included an instruction not to single out one instruction over any other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.