Chester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1997
11 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. Larose · Buck v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the plea she only waived her right to contest the truth of the charge against her and submitted to the punishment. In the particular case, the prosecution against her in the city court, the plea was effective just as if she had pleaded guilty, but it is not binding upon her, nor does it have any effect beyond that particular case. (107 Miss, at 461, 65 So. at 510 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruno v. Cook
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.