State v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably State v. Tolley (1976), State v. Baldwin (1970)
33 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 State v. Speller · State v. Farrell · State v. . Farrell · State v. Taylor · State v. Davis
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, whether a case shall be continued rests in the sound discretion of the trial judge. ‘But when the motion is based on a right guaranteed by the Federal and State constitutions, (citing constitutions) the question presented is one of law and not of - discretion, and the decision of the court below is reviewable. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson 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.