Finch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Tri-State Corp. v. State Ex Rel. Gallion (1961), Hendrix v. Creel (1974)
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 Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. · State Ex Rel. Steele v. Board of Education · Juzan v. Toulmin · Mahone v. Williams · Van Antwerp v. Board of Com'rs
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`No branch of the government is so responsible for the autonomy of the several governmental units and branches as the judiciary. Accordingly, we have held that courts cannot and will not interfere with the discretion vested in other units or branches of government.'"”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte State · Little 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.