State v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 560 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 567 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Hancock (2006)
3 federal appellate · 560 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi
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 567 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Plain error is an obvious error * * * that affects a substantial right.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“to exclude statements of dubious reliability that cannot be tested by cross-examination.”
4 later decisions 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.