State v. Little’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Territory of Guam v. Kingsbury (1981), 174 W. Va. 793 - State v. Manns (1985)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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.
“"A child may be remanded to a circuit, district, justice or municipal court of competent jurisdiction for disposition as an adult if: "(a) The child is at the time of the remand 16 years of age or older; and "(b) The child committed or is alleged to have committed a criminal offense or a violation of a municipal ordinance; and "(c) The juvenile court determines that retaining jurisdiction will not serve the best interests of the child and the public."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he order of remand, being a final order as far as the juvenile court is concerned, is appealable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the absence of any more certain legislative direction, it is sometimes observed, courts should follow the words of the statute. * * * What the law does not forbid, it allows * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.