Yates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2003
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the juror was sleeping, and that fact was at the time known to the accused or his counsel, it should have been brought to the attention of the court, but, failing to do so, the objection, if it could be called one, was waived”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Erlsten 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.