People v. Paisley’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1947 · most notably State v. Owens (1924), The People v. Touhy (1935)
3 federal appellate · 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 William Ensign v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania No 123 Charles a Ensign · Gindrat v. People · Meadowcroft v. People · Tallman v. Metropolitan Elevated R. Co. · Lamson v. Boyden
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is repeatedly urged in the brief and argument of the state that the defendants’ guilt is so clearly established that they are not entitled to a new trial, even if it be conceded that all the errors assigned are well founded. This assertion must come from a misconception of the law of this case, wherein the jury are judges, not only of the question of guilt or innocence, but of the amount and character of punishment that should be imposed. The defendants in this case have been given the greatest penalty in the way of imprisonment that is fixed by the statute, when it was entirely a discretionary matter with the jury as to whether or not imprisonment should be imposed as part of the penalty. No fair-minded man can say, it seems to us, that the errors in this record are not such as to demand a reversal of the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Folkes“No witness can thus invade the province of the jury, expert or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. . Hightower
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.