State v. Pare’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Williams v. Commission On Human Rights & Opportunities (2001), State v. Murray (2000)
2 federal appellate · 120 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Neder v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Yamamoto v. United States · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The next factor we consider in determining whether a statute is mandatory or directory is whether the pre-scribed mode of action is the essence of the thing to be accomplished, or in other words, whether it relates to a matter of substance [as opposed to] a matter of convenience.... If it is a matter of substance, the statutory provision is [generally held to be] mandatory. If, however, the legislative provision is designed to secure order, system and dispatch in the proceedings, it is generally held to be directory ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] jury cannot be considered discharged so long as its members have yet to fulfill an outstanding obligation pursuant to their status as jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right to poll the jury, although not of constitutional dimension, is nonetheless a corollary to the defendant's right to a unanimous verdict.”
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.