State v. Poland’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably State v. Didier (1972), 315 So. 2d 307 - State v. Bell (1975)
49 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Diaz v. United States · Prince v. United States · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A change of venue shall be granted when the applicant proves that by reason of prejudice existing in the public mind or because of undue influence, or that for any other reason, a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained in the parish where the prosecution is pending ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The test to be applied is whether there can be secured with reasonable certainty from the citizenry of the parish a jury whose members will be able to try the case uninfluenced by what they might have heard in the matter, and who will give the accused the benefit of any reasonable doubt which might arise from the evidence or from the lack thereof."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f, after the first prosecution, a new fact supervenes for which the defendant is responsible, and which changes the character of the offense and, together with the facts- existing at the time, constitutes a new -and distinct crime, an acquittal or conviction of the first offense is not a bar to an indictment for the other distinct crime. Thus, [n]either an acquittal nor a conviction for assault while the person assaulted is still living will bar a prosecution, for murder or ’ manslaughter instituted after the person assaulted dies on account of the injuries . received; and the trial for murder does not place the defendant twice in jeopardy-”
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.