State v. Close’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1981
10 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 United States v. Fisher · State v. Woodman · State v. Cassady · State v. Bancroft · Coney v. Mayor of Topeka
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems needless to elaborate on the proposition that more than one person may participate in the theft of an automobile, and the fact that one of them confesses his guilt contributes little or nothing towards the exculpation of the others.” (p.498.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lovell
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.