State v. Webber’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2016
20 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 State v. Shurn · State v. Schneider · State v. Smith · State v. Sykes · State v. Engleman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge is to maintain absolute impartiality during proceedings to ensure that the defendant receives a fair trial. Accordingly, the court must maintain a position of neutrality and should avoid any conduct which might be construed as indicating a belief on the part of the judge as to the defendant’s guilt. The issue is whether the remarks by the trial judge could have prejudiced the minds of the jury against the defendant. Whether there was prejudice depends on the context and words in each case. There is no error as long as the trial judge does not express an opinion as to the nature, content, or truthfulness of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson“We will not reverse a trial court’s exercise of discretion absent a showing of clear abuse and substantial prejudice resulting to the defendant. The declaration of a mistrial is a drastic remedy that should be employed only in extraordinary circumstances in which prejudice to the defendant can be removed in no other way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Love
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.