Owen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 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 Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Underwood v. State · Williams v. State · Gross Income Tax Division v. Surface Combustion Corp.
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.
“Appellant’s objection came after the jury was selected and sworn. A motion for severance must be timely made before trial, unless it is based upon a ground not previously known. . . . Since the objection was not made before the trial commenced, there was a waiver of severance, even if the objection is considered to be a motion for severance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King 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.