Chance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Gilreath v. State (1981)
31 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 Cawthon v. State · Perdue v. State · Vaughn v. State · Frank v. State · Sarah v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entirely out of sight and hearing of the jury,”
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.