Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1987
16 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 Reynolds v. States · Bowman v. State · Byler v. State · Hardin v. State · McPherson 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [t]he presence of the trial judge could have been in the line of his judicial duties, that is, these questions and answers could have been in a habeas corpus proceeding to consider bail, or they could have been in a hearing to see if the defendant should be committed to the State Hospital to determine his sanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holloway v. State“Under the circumstances in this case, such motion comes too late.... In the case at bar it was not shown that the trial judge was disqualified, and furthermore the point was not raised in apt time, and was waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holloway 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.