State v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1841
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1975
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not essential to a verdict that it should be written; the jury may announce it to the court ore tenus or upon paper, at their pleasure; and, however rendered, upon the suggestion of the judge, it may be varied by the jury in its terms, so as to make it speak their intentions. And the change thus made in the finding need not be noted in writing, even if it be such as to entirely supersede the verdict.””
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.