State v. Witte’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), State v. Orecchio (1954)
3 federal appellate · 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 Berger v. United States · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Dimick v. Schiedt · Logan v. United States · Ex Parte Nielsen
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the vice is plainly ineradicable by an instruction to the jury, a mistrial is not allowable of right. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`is reviewable only for an abuse of discretion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the specification of the accusation is sufficient if it afford the accused the means of preparing his defense and provide the basis for the plea of autrefois convict or autrefois acquit, in the event of a further prosecution for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cohen
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.