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State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
May 2022
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Dean (2004), State v. Davis (2013)

37 state decisions

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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. McRae · United States v. Dworken · United States v. Pedraza · State v. Petree

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Utah courts have repeatedly held that a trial court's error is not plain where there is no settled appellate law to guide the trial court.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Rieck
  2. “) 2 Accordingly, any error in imposing the additional prison term could not have been obvious to the trial court, and Kerr's plain error argument fails. T8 Finally, Kerr contends that his trial counsel was ineffective because she failed to argue that the enhanced sentence imposed by the trial court violated the double jeopardy and cruel and unusual punishment clauses of the Utah and United States Constitutions. Again, Kerr's claim is without merit.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Davis · State v. Pacheco
  3. “absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for the appellant, or phrased differently, our confidence in the verdict is undermined.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Alzaga

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.