Minton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Drollinger v. State (1980), Wofford v. State (1979)
61 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 Hash v. State · Poindexter v. State · Hester v. State · Strickland v. State · Chatman 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such an instance (failure to rule) it cannot be assumed that the motion was denied, and by proceeding without a ruling and without protest, the defendant has waived any alleged error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watkins 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.