State v. Bethards’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1976
3 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. Wilson · City of Des Moines v. Pugh
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Information — Assault and Battery. State of Iowa vs. Robert L. Bostwick In the Municipal Court of the City of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. The Defendant_, accused of the crime of Assault and Battery. For that the Defendant_on the 14 day of May, 1952, at the City of Des Moines, in the County of Polk, State of Iowa, did unlawfully and willfully commit Assault and Battery upon Emma Hollingsworth at 841 Penn Ave.____ Emma HolliNgswoRth against the peace and dignity of the State of Iowa, in such case made find provided. Res. Address 841 Penn Ave. Bus. Address_:_ Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me by the said-this 14 day of May, 1952. DON L. Tidrioe Judge of Municipal Court.” (Seal) Municipal Court City of Des Moines Iowa”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bostwick““1. The name of the county and of the justice where the information is filed.' “2. The names of the parties * * *. “3. A statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and the time and place of the commission of the offense, as near as may be.” (Section 762.3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bostwick
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.