Palmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1975 · most notably Director of Patuxent Institution v. DANIELS OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION (1966), Sas v. Maryland (1964)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Eggleston 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expert findings and conclusions are to be accorded very serious consideration, particularly in a case such as this one, when the trial court almost necessarily must rely to a considerable degree on the opinions of expert witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sas v. Maryland
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.