State v. Balch’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1980
22 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 White v. Nicholls · Commonwealth v. Clap · Sweeney v. Baker · Lewis and Herrick v. . Chapman · Long v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor can the principle be tolerated that convictions for violated law may be procured or brought about by the inauguration and accomplishment of other violations of law. It is also true that in this case the court below instructed the jury that the statement made by the county attorney should not be allowed to work any prejudice to the rights or interests of the defendant. But, under the authorities, the evil done by such an infringement of the law — an infringement of law by the prosecuting officer of the state — cannot be remedied or cured by any mere instruction from the court. The only complete remedy, if the defendant is convicted, is to grant him a new trial on his motion. Of course, if he does not want the new trial, or does not make a motion therefor, he should be sentenced.””
1 later decision 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.