State v. Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Martin v. State (1972), Raia v. Topehius (1973)
3 federal appellate · 28 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. Carabajal · State v. Cox · State v. Priest · State v. Rainey · State v. Turmel
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is well settled that the mere fact that a photograph is gruesome is not a reason for its non admission. . . “The presiding justice has great latitude and discretion in determining the admissibility of photographs and unless there is shown an abuse of discretion, his ruling will not be disturbed on exceptions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crocker · State v. Duguay“The law is well settled that the mere fact that a photograph is gruesome is not a reason for its non admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“lesser offense than that concerned in the charge of felony murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.