Melton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 1966
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 69 Okla. Crim. 369 - Spann v. State · 71 Okla. Crim. 1 - Rainey v. State · 97 Okla. Crim. 34 - Fowler v. State · 93 Okla. Crim. 163 - Parker 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where jury is waived the finding of facts by the trial court will be sustained on appeal where-there is competent evidence in the record reasonably tending to support his finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grubbs v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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