Royals v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably 39 Ill. 2d 346 - The People v. Caldwell (1968), Conklin v. State (1985)
8 federal appellate · 48 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 People v. Spranger · Strickland v. State · Smithwick v. State · Shedden v. Stiles · Glover 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A dying declaration reduced to writing and signed by the deceased, and introduced in evidence by this State, should not have been sent by the court to the jury for their consideration while deliberating on the verdict which they should render, over the objection of the defendant; and permitting such declaration to go to the jury over the objection of the defendant requires the grant of a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State“The reason given for not allowing them to be delivered to the jury is, that the testimony which they contain, if read and reread by the jury, would have an unfair advantage over oral testimony of the other side, by speaking to the jury more than once.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State
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.