Christensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1979 · most notably Green v. United States (1957), 3 Kan. App. 2d 726 - In Re Berkowitz (1979)
24 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 Andres v. United States · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Hartung v. . the People · Ex Parte Tanner · Calton v. People of the Territory of Utah
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had; the former verdict cannot be used or referred to either in the evidence or argument.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hess · State v. Phillips““. . . A new trial is a re-examination of the issues in the same court . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Young · Cox v. State““In this state a new trial granted on the motion of the defendant in a criminal case, places the party accused in the same position as if no trial had been had.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hess
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.