Handley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Daniels v. State (1943), Burns v. State (1932)
75 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 Malachi v. State · Bush v. Bumgardner · Sanford v. Kimball · People v. Gleason · Lumpkin 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special counsel may appear in the prosecution as an assistant to the solicitor and with the consent of the court. The management of the case remains with the official representative of the state, in whose name the special counsel appears. The consent of the state is all the authority needed by special counsel; hence, a motion by defendant to require special counsel to show his authority is properly overruled (citing Ala. cases). `In the absence of statute, the state cannot be compelled to disclose the names of private prosecutors or informers, especially where it is not shown that defendant will be prejudiced by the want of such information.' 16 C. J., 801; State v. Fortin , 106 Me. 382 , 76 A. 890 , 21 Ann. Cas., 454; Barkman v. State (Tex.Cr.App.), 52 S.W. 69 . The rule is founded upon the public policy that encourages the citizen to give aid in the detection and punishment of crime. . . . The official representative of the state has the first duty to see that no abuses arise, and a failure of duty in this regard will not be presumed unless made to affirmatively appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Carden““The appearance of special counsel after the jury was organized and the trial entered upon did not, as matter of right, entitle the defendant to have the case withdrawn and continued. If there was any personal relation between Mr. Beddow and any juror which put defendant at disadvantage in the matter of challenges, it is not made to appear; hence it is not shown that there was abuse of discretion in denying the motion for continuance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. State“`Counsel has no right, in his opening statement, to rehearse before the jury facts which he is not in a condition to prove.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.