Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Avila (1985), Matter of Marquardt (1989)
51 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Scott v. Illinois · Baldwin v. New York · Taylor v. Hayes · Hampton v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““.. . The jurisdiction of justice of the peace courts and courts inferior to the superior court is as provided by law. Ariz.Const. art. 6, § 32. A.R.S. §§ 22-301 and 22-402(B) grant inferior courts jurisdiction over assault and battery offenses ‘not charged to have been committed upon a public officer in the discharge of his duties . . . . ’ (Emphasis added.) The legislature has thus explicitly excluded charges brought under A.R.S. § 13— 1204(A)(5) from the subject matter jurisdiction of inferior courts... . ” 614 P.2d at 814 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a defendant is charged with several petty offenses, factually related or arising out of a single event, there is no constitutional requirement of a jury trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spence v. Bacal“the maximum statutory penalty is the most relevant objective criteria in determining a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.