State v. Searle’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1987
22 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 Hawes v. State · State v. Keeler · Paulson v. State · State v. Ebel · State v. Gaimos
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“True, they [the boys] were not permitted to testify to those facts, but the reasonable inference to be drawn by the jury was that the defendant had committed like acts upon the several boys involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Toner“It is well known that prejudice and indignation existing at and immediately after the commission of a heinous crime often subsides with the passage of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dryman
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.