State v. . Owenby’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably State v. Perry (1950), State v. Simpson (1951)
42 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It can make no difference in what way or when the opinion of the judge is conveyed to the jury, whether directly or indirectly, or by the general tone and tenor of the trial. The statute forbids an intimation of his opinion in any form whatever, .it being the intent of the law to insure to each and every litigant a fair and impartial trial before the j ury. ‘Every suitor is entitled by the law to have his cause considered with the “cold neutrality of the impartial judge” and the equally unbiased mind of a properly instructed jury.’ Withers v. Lane, 144 N.C., p. 192, 56 S.E., 855 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.