Schmoyer v. Bourdeau’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably State v. Dawson (1988), Mason v. Ditzel (1992)
32 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 Putro v. Baker · State v. Beesskove · State Highway Commission v. Manry · Goff v. Kinzle · Brunnabend v. Tibbles
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the District Court has considered the matter [of jury misconduct], however it is raised ... this Court will not lightly disturb that ruling. To overthrow it this Court must be shown by evidence that is clear, convincing, and practically free from doubt, of the error of the trial court’s ruling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allers v. Riley · State v. Murray“frivolous and recurrent invasions of that privacy by disappointed litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Maxwell
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.