State v. Sumpter’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1981
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 State v. Bresse · State v. Austin · State v. Collins · State v. James · State v. Bevins
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.
““If the jury were led by the court’s erroneous instructions, or the lack of necessary instructions, into fixing the wrong punishment, the court could not thereupon usurp the province of the jury and fix the punishment, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3704, R.S.Mo. 1929 (Mo.St.Ann. § 3704, p. 3259). It is true that section says: ‘Where the jury finds a verdict of guilty and assess a punishment not authorized by law, * * * the court shall assess and declare the punishment.’ But it was held in State v. Bevins, 328 Mo. 1046 , 43 S.W.2d 432 , that this section does not authorize the court to lead the jury into error by wrongful instructions and then to reject their verdict and itself assess the punishment”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright
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.