State v. Brinkhaus’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1951
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 Mair v. January
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.
“* * * In view of that instruction, which was entirely proper, the defendant could not have been prejudiced by the fact that the court, in casually referring to the different penalties which might be inflicted, fell into an inaccuracy. When the attention of the court was called to it at the close of the charge, he stated to the jury: `I merely said this: I can send him to state prison or not, just as I think right or proper. Punishment is a matter you have nothing to do with.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gensmer
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.