Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Tolley (1976), Potts v. State (1978)
5 federal appellate · 64 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 Cain v. State · Jarrell v. State · Joyner v. State · Shy v. State · Woodruff v. State
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant has a right to be tried in an atmosphere free of partiality created by the use of excessive guards except where special circumstances exist...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green 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.