State v. Carte’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably State v. Moses (1980), State v. Nichols (1949)
30 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 Brady v. United States · Curtis v. United States · Bracey v. Zerbst · Parks v. Amrine · State v. White
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a valid judgment and sentence has been rendered in a criminal case the court has no authority after the sentence imposed has been served, in whole or in part, to set it aside and hear additional evidence and impose a new sentence, even though this be done at the same term of court.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richardson v. Hand · State v. Lyon““Every other killing of a human being, by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of another, which would be manslaughter at the common law, and which is not excusable or justifiable, or is not declared in this article to be manslaughter in some other degree, shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carte“Only one offense had been committed; the plea of guilty on the first count barred prosecution on the second and third counts, being second jeopardy for the same offense; the second and third pleas were wrongful because she had been wrongfully charged on those counts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carte
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.