State v. Roger Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · State v. Burke · State v. Lynch · State v. Brown
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test to determine whether or not an item of evidence is cumulative 'is a retrospective one, administered at the close of all the evidence to determine whether the admission of certain evidence was harmless in light of all the evidence admitted on that point.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he admission of hearsay evidence is not prejudicial when the evidence is merely cumulative and when [the] defendant's guilt is sufficiently established by proper evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under this standard, this Court will uphold the trial justice's ruling unless a clear 'abuse of discretion that prejudices the complaining party is shown.'”
1 later decision 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.