State v. Crenshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Hooker (1988), State v. Thrift (1994)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · 154 W. Va. 397 - State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood · Livingston v. Commonwealth · State v. Solomon · Solomon v. South Carolina
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indictment is adequate if the offense is stated with sufficient certainty and particularity to enable the court to know what judgment to pronounce, the defendant to know what he is called upon to answer, and acquittal or conviction to be placed in bar to any subsequent conviction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garrett · State v. Reddick“As the indictment bears the specific code section on its face and there was lengthy discussion concerning that code section throughout the trial, appellants obviously knew for what crime they were being prosecuted. Further, an indictment charging a statutory crime need not use the precise language of the statute in describing the offense, if the words used are equivalent to those employed by the statute, Livingston v. Commonwealth, 184 Va. 830 , 36 S.E.2d 561 (1946), as was the case in this instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reddick
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.