State v. Chinn’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably State v. Square (1971), State v. Augustine (1968)
57 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 State v. Eisenhardt · State v. Gunter · State v. Sauls
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... and, since the insanity at the time of the commission of the offense was subsequently pleaded and became the main defense at the trial, it effected a cure of any - irregularity theretofore existing in this order.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ketchens
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.