State v. Herrick’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), State v. Jackson (2009)
25 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 Illinois v. Allen · Holbrook v. Flynn · Duckett v. Godinez · State v. Finch · State v. Herrman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even to contemplate such a technique . . . arouses a feeling that no person should be tried while shackled and gagged except as a last resort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deck v. Missouri“the restraints were not visible to the jury. Nothing of record shows or even suggests . . . that jurors or potential jurors saw the shackles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Merrill“[w]e again observe that nothing of record indicates that jurors or potential jurors saw Herrick's leg restraints at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Merrill
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.