State v. Hickock & Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably State v. Zimmer (1967), State v. Latham & York (1962)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 State v. Andrews · State v. Wilson · State v. Beam · State v. Haught · State v. Eye
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the matter of a continuance in a criminal prosecution is largely within the discretion of the trial court and ... its ruling thereon will not be disturbed unless it has been made to appear that such discretion has been abused to the prejudice of substantial rights of a defendant.” (p. 482.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zimmer“experienced, qualified, competent and respected members of the Kansas Bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hickock v. Crouse
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.