State v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2003
16 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 Baker v. United States · Evans v. United States · Cross v. United States · State v. Brown · Bradley v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Two or more crimes may be charged against a defendant in the same complaint, information or indictment in a separate count for each crime if the crimes charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Barnhart““ ‘When all of the offenses are of the same general character, require the same mode of trial, the same kind of evidence and occur in the same jurisdiction the defendant may be hied upon several counts of one information or if separate informations have been filed they may be consolidated for trial at one and the same trial.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Breazeale
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.