State v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2023
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Arizona v. Fulminante · Arizona v. Youngblood · Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For you to find a person guilty of criminal attempt, the state must have proven beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the following essential elements: that the defendant intended to commit the specific offense of Murder in the Second Degree; and that the defendant did some act or caused something to happen that would have constituted Murder in the Second Degree if the defendant’s beliefs at the time he acted had in fact been true; or that the defendant did some act intending to cause an essential element of Murder in the Second Degree to occur, and at the time believed the act would cause the element to occur without further action on the defendant’s part; or that thé defendant did some act intending to complete a course of action or cause a result that would constitute Murder in the Second Degree under the circumstances, as the defendant believed them to be at the time, and his actions constituted a substantial step toward the commission of Murder in the Second Degree. The defendant’s actions do not constitute a substantial step unless the defendant’s entire course of action clearly shows his intent to commit Murder in the Second Degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Palmer“Just as a special prosecutor may be tempted to bring a tenuously supported prosecution if such a reward promises financial or legal rewards for the private client, a special prosecutor may also be tempted to suggest the abandonment of a meritorious prosecution if a settlement providing benefits to the private client is conditioned on a recommendation against criminal charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The responsibility of a public prosecutor differs from that of the usual advocate in that it is the public prosecutor's duty to seek justice, not merely to convict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eldridge v. Gibson
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.