State v. Findling’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Manussier (1996), State v. Gordon (1971)
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 10 E.H. Smith 541 - People v. . Sickles · State v. Le Pitre · People Ex Rel. Cosgriff v. . Craig · Herndon 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That entire fairness in prosecutions of this character would suggest some statutory change in the law, dispensing with the necessity of pleading the fact of prior conviction, and providing for the determination thereof by the court after conviction of the charge on trial. This would avoid any possible prejudice to defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zywicki
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.