People v. Utter’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1947
6 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. Farrell · Wilson v. People · Edwards v. People · In re Vitali · O'Hara v. People
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That whenever any person shall plead guilty to an information filed against him in any circuit court it shall be the duty of the judge of such court, before pronouncing judgment or sentence upon such plea, to become satisfied,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Merhige
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.