State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Badger (1982), Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety (1991)
27 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 State v. Owens · State v. Ovitt · State v. Brisson · State v. Graves · Dobkin v. District of Columbia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is our belief that the framers of the Vermont Constitution intended to secure to an accused, in prosecutions for all ‘criminal offenses’, the right of trial by jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pecora · State v. Dragon““That in all prosecutions for criminal offenses, a person hath a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, . . . a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county; without the unanimous consent of which jury, he cannot be found guilty ....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Bowers“[N]or can any person be justly deprived of his liberty, except by the laws of the land, or the judgment of his peers....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brunelle
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.