State v. Schenk’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2008
23 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 Commonwealth v. Donoghue · State v. Wilson · State v. Keul · State v. Schreck
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we read the record there was no special defense. The plea was not guilty. This court, in State v. Lightfoot, 107 Iowa 344 , 78 N.W. 41 , held that it was not error, in the absence of request, to fail to instruct as to an alibi, although evidence had been introduced tending to show that the defendant was not at such place when the crime was committed, and that he could not have participated in its commission. State v. Porter, 74 Iowa 623 , 38 N.W. 514 ; State v. Brandenberger, 151 Iowa 197 , 130 N.W. 1065 , and eases there cited. * * * “It seems to us that the claim of defendant is that the trial court should have instructed as to certain specified evidence offered by him. We have held that it is not necessary, in the absence of a special request for instructions relating to' the bearing of specific evidence, to instruct as to such matters of evidence. State v. Seevers, 108 Iowa 738 , 78 N.W. 705 . That defendant was a labor organizer and helped workers organize under the law and advised against force and violence would hardly be a special defense, although it might tend to throw some light upon the ultimate question, to wit, the guilt or innocence of the defendant. We hold that this claim of defendant was without merit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Warren“`Although not directly an instrumentality of the perpetration of a crime certain objects which surround and relate to the same tend to illustrate it * * * It is well settled that things pertaining to a scene of a crime are competently offered in evidence and displayed before the jury.' Wharton's Criminal Ev., 11th Ed., p. 1288, sec. 760.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kittelson
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.