State v. Wear’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Wild v. Rarig (1975), State Ex Rel. Griffin v. Smith (1953)
71 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Cloud v. Inhabitants of the Town of Pierce City · 48 La. Ann. 109 - State ex rel. Butler v. Moise · State v. Huting · Moore v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. · Milner v. Shipley
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he shall be entitled to be discharged so far as relates to the offense for which he was committed, unless the delay shall happen on the application of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dickson
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.