State v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2007
15 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 Havenor v. State · La Valley v. State · Hurst v. Webster Manufacturing Co. · Surma v. State · Wiedenhaupt v. Hoelzel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘And so it is with jury trials. In order that the institution be preserved and its usefulness continued, its deliberations and pronouncements must be kept pure, and untainted not only from all improper influences but from the appearance thereof. It is often said that the jury trial is one of the bulwarks of our liberty. But it will remain so only so long as public confidence in the institution prevails.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rasmussen v. Miller““Even though no prejudice was shown and even though the ■ instructions by the trial judge would tend to eliminate prejudice, if any in fact existed, a trial must be free not only from prejudice but from the appearance thereof, and the. rule must be adhered to in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“they would not hurt my feelings if they hurried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ford
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.