State v. Paulson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Lenihan (1979), State v. Fitzpatrick (1980)
40 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 Brinegar v. United States · Draper v. United States · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Rabinowitz · Williams v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Motions for continuance are addressed to the discretion of the trial court and the granting of a continuance has never been a matter of right . . . The district court cannot be overturned on appeal in absence of a showing of prejudice to the movant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Motions for continuance are addressed to the discretion of the trial court and the granting of a continuance has never been a matter of right. (Citation omitted.) The district court cannot be overturned on appeal in absence of a showing of prejudice to the movant. (Citation omitted.) “Defendant’s argument therefore must stand or fall on the issue of prejudice, for the district court can be said to have abused its discretion only if its ruling was prejudicial. We have not found a single case ... in which the denial of a motion for continuance was reversed without a showing of resulting prejudice to the movant.” State v. Paulson (1975), 167 Mont. 310 , 538 P.2d 339 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kirkland
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.