State v. Kilpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 296 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Lord (1994), State v. Pace (1969)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mapp v. Ohio · Kemmler · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The county attorney is the representative of the state in criminal prosecutions, and as such he controls these prosecutions. He has the authority to dismiss any charge or to reduce any charge . . .” (p. 17.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pruett
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.