State v. Carnes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2006
12 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 Ryan v. United States · State v. Lankford · State v. Crump · State v. Stephens · State v. Moss
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure to instruct the jury on the definition or the amplification of the elements of an offense is not error when there has been a failure to request such an instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mascarenas“jurors could properly apply the common meaning of hostage ... and the application of the common meaning did not prejudice defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mascarenas
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.