Batchelor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2011 · most notably Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson (1932), Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934)
2 federal appellate · 68 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 Dobosky v. State · Krolage v. People · People v. Hartman · The People v. . Mondon · People v. Murray
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right . . .; to be heard by himself and counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof; . . . and to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.” (My italics.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Suter v. State · Todd v. State“There can be little doubt, under the facts disclosed in this case, that appellant was denied the right to be heard by counsel as guaranteed by the letter and the spirit of our state Constitution. There is nothing to show that appellant waived this right... . The denial of a constitutional right to a person prosecuted for a crime is prima facie prejudicial... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but such a construction would illustrate the truth of that part of the old legal maxim which declares:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.