People v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1975
1 district · 9 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 State v. White · In re Ascher · People v. Taylor · People v. Gessinger · People v. Underwood
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Asa general rule, the issue of former acquittal, conviction, or other jeopardy should be raised before going to trial on the general issue, assuming that it cannot be tried under the general issue, and practically all courts hold that it must he raised at that stage of the trial, unless there are circumstances that make it inappropriate at that time and appropriate at another time.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. McDonald““Larceny and receiving stolen property are separate and distinct offenses. The justice should not have accepted the general verdict of guilty rendered by the jury. The sentence imposed thereon was void and unenforceable. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Huffman
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.