State v. Killenger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Spigarolo (1989), State v. Boucino (1986)
72 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 Russell v. United States · Hartman v. United States · State v. Whistnant · State v. Roque · State v. Ruiz
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f we consider the bill of particulars in conjunction with the information, the test to be applied is as follows: [If] the state's pleadings ... informed the defendant of the charge against him with sufficient precision to enable him to prepare his defense and to avoid prejudicial surprise, and were definite enough to enable him to plead his acquittal or conviction in bar of any future prosecution for the same offense, they have performed their constitutional duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the nature of the violence and the injury received were the same”
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.