State v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2019
8 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. Sailor · State v. Brinkhaus · State v. Owens · State v. Zempel · State v. McCarthy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You will not consider what, if any, punishment shall be inflicted upon this man. If he is found guilty that disagreeable task of sentencing him will fall upon the court, but the court will have a lot more information about him than you have now; so you will not let that bother you in the slightest degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gensmer“[t]he jury go[es] outside their province as triers of the facts if they include the matter of punishment in their deliberations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crow 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.