State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Worthington v. State (2005), State v. Hall (1998)
1 federal appellate · 54 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 · Caldwell v. Mississippi · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Payne v. Tennessee · Estelle v. Williams
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress, the facts and any reasonable inferences arising therefrom are to be viewed in a light most favorable to the ruling of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ecause `judges are presumed to not consider improper evidence at sentencing, [the state supreme court] presumes that inadmissible evidence' relevant to sentencing `is neither prejudicial nor fundamentally unfair in court-tried matters.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unambiguous, unanimous verdict is returned, the jury polled, and the verdict recorded, the verdict is no longer impeachable for lack of unanimity simply because a juror had a later change of mind.”
1 later decision 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.