State v. Battle’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably State v. Alston (1978), State v. Booker (1982)
28 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 Benton v. Maryland · United States v. Josef Perez · State v. Birckhead · State v. Crocker · State v. . Trippe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the general rule is that an order of mistrial in a criminal case will not support a plea of former jeopardy. . . . When the jurors declare their inability to agree, it must be left to the trial judge, in the exercise of his judicial discretion, to decide whether he will then declare a mistrial or require them to deliberate further. . . . After a jury has declared its inability to reach a verdict, the action of the trial judge in declaring a mistrial is reviewable only in case of gross abuse of discretion, and the burden is upon defendant to show such abuse. . . . 279 N.C. at 486 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alston · State v. Raynor““However, the general rule is that an order of mistrial in a criminal case will not support a plea of former jeopardy. * * * When the jurors declare their inability to agree, it must be left to the trial judge, in the exercise of his judicial discretion, to decide whether he will then declare a mistrial or require them to deliberate further. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin
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.