State v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1999
16 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 State v. Reese · Brock v. State of North Carolina · State v. Wear · State Ex Rel. Griffin v. Smith · Frederick Seymour Barrington v. State of Missouri
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he entry of a nolle prosequi ... was not an acquittal and ... did not place the defendant in jeopardy.... In the ancient and hortatory language of lawyers the effect of a nolle prosequi ‘““is to put the defendant without day, that is, he is discharged and permitted to leave the Court without entering into a recognizance to appear at any other time; but it does not operate as an acquittal, for he may after-wards be again indicted for the same offense, or fresh process may be issued against him upon the same indictment and he be tried upon it.... ” ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bally · State v. Davis
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.