State v. Rowland’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Thomas (2018), State v. Fink (1975)
42 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 13 Cal. App. 2d 667 - People v. Romero · State v. Maxwell · State v. Wigger · State v. Collins · Zinn ex rel. Zinn v. Updegraff
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he entering of a nolle prosequi with consent of the trial court did not prejudice a fresh prosecution on a new information charging the identical offense set forth in the prior information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Parry · State v. Bird“cut off completely the right of the defendant to cross-examine those witnesses who had been defrauded and whose testimony was absolutely necessary to a conviction, as to their being parties to the civil action brought by him against them and interested in the outcome of the criminal action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thomas“The mere entry of a nolle prosequi, or the dismissal of an indictment, with the consent of the court, is no bar to the filing of another indictment or information for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bird
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.