Britten v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Davis v. State (1979), Spencer v. Kemp (1986)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Rogers v. Richmond · Payne v. Arkansas · Malinski v. People of State of New York
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the discretionary power of the trial judge to reopen the case and allow the State to introduce further testimony even though such testimony was not in rebuttal of evidence offered by the defendant or his [testimony before] the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State“It is within the discretionary power of the court to allow a witness to be sworn after the evidence on both sides has been announced closed and the argument has been commenced. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton 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.