State v. Worden’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1971
17 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 Griffith v. Continental Casualty Co. · State v. Tarwater · State v. Hart · Reynolds v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Childress v. Cutter
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.
““But the statements in such a motion for continuance do not prove themselves. It is true that the motion was verified by the defendant himself but it is not stated that he was present and heard (the statements made) ... in the presence of members of the jury. It is quite apparent that he was not present at any of those times because he was in jail and his own case did not come up until afterwards. Even if his unsupported verification could be taken as proof of such facts if made of his own knowledge, which we do not decide, the fact that it was not upon his own knowledge but upon information leaves an entire absence of proof. (Parenthesis ours.) “Further it is quite apparent that the facts alleged, if true, were susceptible of definite proof. If any of those things occurred as alleged, many persons were present and heard them, and affidavits could have been obtained as to whether they occurred and whether any of the jury panel heard any of them. So the allegations of both motions rest entirely without proof when proof was amply available if they were true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gadwood
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.