Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2004
10 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 Brickey v. State · Smith 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““expedite adjudications so that none could fairly say that the right to an acquittal was being stifled because those charged with offlcial duties preferred to procrastinate, meanwhile keeping the accused under a cloud — a result as severe in some cases as a conviction would be in others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jolly 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.