State v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Johnson (2017), State v. Worwood (2007)
44 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Dunn · State v. Verde · State v. Lopez · State v. Gibbons
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well-established rule that a defendant who fails to bring an issue before the trial court is generally barred from raising it for the first time on appeal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lintzen · State v. C.D.L.“a change in law or the settled interpretation of law [that] colored the failure to have raised [the retroactivity] issue at trial”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.D. v. State · State v. Johnson“is a descriptive term used to memorialize an appellate court's judgment that even though an issue was not raised below and even though the plain error doctrine does not apply, unique procedural circumstances nonetheless permit consideration of the merits of the issue on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Pullman
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.