Knotts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Ward v. State (1981), JOHNSON, ETC. v. State (1965)
33 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 Preston v. United States · State v. Weleck · Berger v. State · Bryant v. State · Braxton 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It savors of technicality to hold an indictment bad merely because, through defective pleading, too much has been charged against the defendant. * * * No harm can be done the defendant by permitting the State to strike one of the charges from the indictment. * * *””
1 later decision 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.