State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2010
13 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 Weems v. United States · United States v. First City National Bank of Houston · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · United States v. Schiffer · Alexander v. Sharpe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the certificate . is precisely to get as full a picture as words can portray of the contemptuous conduct. The stenographic record will not pick up such elements of in-court misbehavior as rude and disrespectful tone of voice or manner of address, nor the shaking of one’s finger at the court in a belligerent way. The complete depiction of the courtroom scene must be left to the justice’s ability to reflect the same in his certificate and its reliability must be placed on his fairness and objectivity.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DeLong · In Re Steinberger
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.