Buchanan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Pulliam v. State (1976), Norton v. State (1980)
87 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · Blackburn v. State · New v. State
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Once a separation of witnesses has been ordered, what to do about a violation of the order lies within the discretion of the trial court. The court’s ruling will not be disturbed unless there is a clear abuse of that discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cua v. Ramos“(a) An information . may be amended on motion by the prosecutor at any time because of any immaterial defect, including: (9) Any other defect which does not prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris 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.