State v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Forrest (2006), State v. Edwards (2003)
41 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 · United States v. Bagley · Soberon v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Herring v. New York
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the right to make any argument to the jury that is essential to the defense of the accused and is justified by evidence and the reasonable inferences that might be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johns“there is a reasonable probability that, in the absence of the abuse, the verdict would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“It is an abuse of discretion for the trial judge to preclude any such argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johns
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.