State v. Melerine’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Andrus (1967), State v. Gatlin (1961)
44 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 On Lee v. United States · Irvine v. People of State of California · Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Scott Paper Co. v. McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc. · McGee v. International Life Insurance
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) If said district attorney be related to the party accused or to the party injured within the fourth degree, or be his father-in-law, or his son-in-law, or his brother-in-law, or be the husband of the accused or of the party injured; "(2) If said district attorney shall have been employed or consulted as attorney for the accused before his election or appointment as district attorney; "(3) If said district attorney shall have a personal interest adverse to that of the prosecution."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In the discipline of his court the trial judge is vested with a sound discretion to stop the prolonged, unnecessary and irrelevant examination of a witness, whether such examination be direct or cross, and even though no objection be urged by counsel."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“support the Constitution and Laws of the United States and the Constitution and Laws of this state,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.