State v. Soltau’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably State v. Thompson (1966), State v. DeZeler (1950)
37 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 State v. Smith · State v. William · State v. Dunn · State v. Storey · State v. Jansen
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The rule now is that the verdict will not be set aside unless prejudice is shown. Whether there was such a communication [from the bailiff to certain jurors] and whether it caused prejudice are fact questions to be determined by the trial court in the exercise of sound discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is not error to fail to give an unrequested cautionary instruction.” 7 . Strommen’s actions showing abandonment include the following: when Townsend demanded money, Strommen told Villa,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strommen“trial judges are under the duty of giving a cautionary instruction concerning the weight of the testimony of accomplices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shoop
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.