State v. Orona’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Trujillo (2002), State v. McCarter (1980)
66 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 Dennis v. United States · Gregory v. United States · Krupiak v. Payton · Goings v. United States · State v. Beal
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a party can offer a previously given statement to substitute for a witness's testimony under the guise of `refreshing recollection,' the whole adversary system of trial must be revised. The evil of this practice hardly merits discussion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacIas“No more prejudice need be shown than that the trial court's order may have made a potential avenue of defense unavailable to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. March v. State“If the witness acknowledges the statement, the court may allow the witness to use it to refresh his recollection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacIas
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.