State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Willoughby (1995), Lane v. State (1980)
29 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Thompson v. Whitman · King v. United States · 44 Cal. 2d 252 - People v. Cavanaugh · Christ Nielsen v. State of Oregon
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he sovereign power of the State exists whether the venue is properly laid in one county or another so long as the appropriate venue is within the territorial jurisdiction of the State '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]ore recent cases have quite consistently held that jurisdiction is a matter which must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if the result is not compelled under In re Winship[ 6 ] because jurisdiction is not one of “those facts essential to establishing criminality of the defendant’s conduct,” it is nonetheless sound. Use of the beyond a reasonable doubt standard minimizes the possibility that a defendant will be tried in one state for a crime actually committed elsewhere. Moreover, it makes it more likely that other states will afford full faith and credit to decisions regarding criminal jurisdiction, even though they are not constitutionally required to do so. There is also the practical consideration that using a lesser standard for a portion of the prosecution’s case and the beyond a reasonable doubt standard for the rest would doubtless create confusion in the minds of jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Butler““[T]rial shall be in the county in which the offense was committed, except as otherwise provided by law.” M.R.Crim. P., Rule 18.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. True
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.