State v. Alonzo’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2020
8 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 Koon v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Alimeg, Inc. v. Shlim · Benner v. Ohio · State v. Dunn
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although counsel has considerable latitude in closing arguments, the trial court could have reasonably concluded that defense counsel was exceeding the bounds of this discretion when counsel referred to the Rodney King officers. The trial court could have determined that defense counsel's references to Rodney King were an attempt to inflame the jury or suggest that because the Rodney King officers were found guilty, the officers in this case were also guilty of using excessive force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“calls to the jury's attention material that the jury would not be justified in considering in reaching its verdict,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the jury could consider defense counsel's arguments involving the Rodney King officers for the purpose of weighing `the credibility of the witnesses, if they want to examine it in that way.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyle v. Christensen
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.