State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Jones (1981), State v. Smith (1977)
127 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · People v. Gorshen · Cheng Fu Sheng v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · State v. Benton
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ue process requires that every defendant be allowed a reasonable time and opportunity to investigate and produce competent evidence, if he can, in defense of the crime [for] which he stands charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.