Fitzherbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1999
8 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 Berman v. United States · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · Miller v. Aderhold · State v. Charette · Commonwealth v. John Dowdican's Bail
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the last case cited, which is similar to the one under consideration, the court, by Gray, C. J., say, ‘Such an order is not equivalent to a final judgment, nor to a nolle prosequi, nor discontinuance, by which the case is put out of court; but is a mere suspending of active proceedings in the case, which dispenses with the necessity of entering formal continuances upon the docket, and leaves it within the power of the court at any time, upon the motion of either party, to bring the case forward and pass any lawful order or judgment therein.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fixaris““We have recognized the power of courts of general jurisdiction, having stated terms for the trial of criminal cases, for good cause to place the indictment on file or continue the case to a subsequent term for sentence. Tuttle v. Lang, 100 Me. 123 . Such practice has long existed in this state, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Sylvester v. State, 65 N.H. 193 , 20 A. 954 ; Com. v. Dowdican’s Bail, 115 Mass. 133 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fixaris
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.