State v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Square (1971), State v. Lacoste (1970)
4 federal appellate · 40 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 Holt v. United States · 15 Cal. 2d 731 - People v. Kynette · State v. Wynne · State v. Aspara · State v. Broadnax
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The illustration made was from what [the Commonwealth's attorney] claimed to be the evidence in the case, and he certainly had the right to do so. It was not in the nature of introduction of testimony, but an effort to make an application of that which had been introduced... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins 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.