Schnee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Maldonado v. State (1976), Lawrence v. State (1972)
48 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 Watts v. State · Meeks v. State · Payne, President v. Buchanan · Burns v. State · HAMMOND CITY CT. ETC. v. State Ex Rel. Hofbauer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'its sole relevance is to show that the defendant's general character is bad and that he therefore has a tendency to commit crimes.”
2 later decisions 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.