Singleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 1959
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. State · Taylor v. State · Burns v. State · Abel v. State · Winston 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court will never pass upon the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly unless it clearly appears in the record that the point was directly and properly made in the court below and distinctly passed on by the trial judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd v. Morgan
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.