State v. Barts’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1992 · most notably Evans v. United States (1992), State v. Reyes (1967)
25 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. Karpowitz · State v. Bacheller · State v. Terry · State v. O'Leary · Lyon v. Fabricant
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any judge, magistrate, sheriff, coroner, constable, jailer or other officer who shall by color of his office, receive or take any fee or reward whatsoever not allowed by law for doing his office, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Goodman“* * * the wisdom of excluding the lay witnesses generally is so apparent as to require no discussion of the point, and it is obvious that it is a matter for the prudence and sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * it is within the sound discretion of the court to permit a limited number of witnesses to remain for the purpose of assisting the prosecution.”
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.