Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Graham v. State (1970), 167 W. Va. 540 - State v. Peacher (1981)
3 federal appellate · 45 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. Williams · State v. Kring · Kahn v. State · State v. Duncan · Bessette 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the trial court has good reason to believe that the defendant is a desperate and dangerous criminal and there is serious, danger of his harming those about him in the court-room or of his attempting to escape or being released by others, it may exercise its sound and enlightened discretion and order him restrained in such reasonable manner as it deems necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jessup v. State“the jury must necessarily conceive a prejudice against the accused, as being in the opinion of the judge a dangerous man, and one not to be trusted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may, to some extent, deprive him of the free and calm use of all his faculties.”
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.