Penn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1980
21 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 Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Abraham v. State · State v. Lindsey · Witte v. Dowd, Warden · Schmittler 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e must assume that the counsel discharged his duty by informing his client regarding the nature of the crime with which he was charged, the penalty imposed, and appellant’s constitutional rights to trial by jury, to subpoena and be confronted by witnesses, etc., and this presumption will prevail until overcome by strong and convincing proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. State“'When the defendant appears for judgment, he must be informed by the court of the verdict of the jury, or the finding of the court, and asked whether he have any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced upon him.' Acts 1905, ch. 169, § 294, p. 584 [§ 9-2205, Burns 1956 Repl.].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minton v. State“"After a finding or verdict of guilty, against the defendant, if a new trial be not granted, or the judgment be not arrested, the court must pronounce judgment." (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minton v. State
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.