Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1979
9 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 Martin v. State · Roberts v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The language of the indictment must be certain as to the title . . ., the name of the court . . ., and the name of the parties. It shall not be necessary to include statement of the act or acts constituting the offense, unless the offense cannot be charged without doing so . . . but the name of the offense charged in the indictment shall carry with it all such allegations . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. England v. State · Smith v. State“The said defendant on the 14th day of April, 1977, in Crittenden County, Arkansas, did unlawfully and feloniously sell or deliver a controlled substance, to-wit: heroin, in violation of the Arkansas Controlled Substances Act, against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“‘ ‘ Here, the accused did not ask that the state be required to file a bill of particulars. Had he thought it necessary to properly prepare his defense that the names of the other rioters be alleged ... he should have made such a request.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.