Price v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1994 · most notably Andres v. United States (1948), Walczak v. State (1985)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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 Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of Police · Mitchell v. State · Close v. Southern Maryland Agricultural Ass'n · Spencer v. State · Watts 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion, it was the purpose of the act to empower juries to unite in a choice of punishments ; that is, a choice between limiting punishment to life imprisonment and leaving the court unrestricted in fixing the punishment; and it was intended that all jurors should exercise a discretion in making that choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When any person indicted for a crime, offense or misdemeanor shall allege insanity or lunacy in his or her defense, the jury impaneled to try such person shall find by their verdict whether such person was at the time of the commission of the alleged offense or still is insane, lunatic or otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant has the right to have a jury not only to try the issue of guilt or innocence, but also to decide what the punishment shall be. The right to a trial on the issue of guilt or innocence may be waived by a plea of guilty, which leaves only the question of punishment to be decided by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.