State v. Hargrove’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1995
19 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 Thornton v. City of Birmingham · St. Clair County v. Bukacek · Montgomery City Lines, Inc. v. Davis · Melco System v. Receivers of Trans-America Ins. Co. · American Casualty Company of Reading, Pa. v. Devine
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he time, manner and character of a party's opening statement to the jury regarding what he expects to prove are within the trial court's discretion, and a ruling on these matters is subject to reversal only when that discretion is abused to the prejudice of the party complaining.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.