State v. Colson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1981
20 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 Bain Jr · Bizzell v. Bizzell · State v. . Cope · State v. Phelps · State v. Wilson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The almost universal practice is for the prosecuting attorney to appear before the grand jury in his official capacity and assist them in their investigation, examining witnesses and advising the grand jury on questions of law; but he is not as a general rule permitted to be present during the deliberations and voting of the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tiller 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.