State v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1992
13 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. Shawley · State v. McKeever · Evans v. Commonwealth · State v. Gilmore · State v. Markel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conviction of DeMore for the offense charged could not be pleaded in bar by appellant, because appellant was not a party to that prosecution and was in no way affected by that judgment. Whether DeMore was rightfully or wrongfully convicted was no concern of appellant’s _ The state, ... was not es-topped, by the previous conviction of De-More, to prosecute another person for the same offense, even though it was conceded that only one person committed the offense.... So whether DeMore was convicted and afterwards pardoned, or not pardoned and the conviction remained in force, was no concern of appellant’s. The issue before the court and jury was the guilt or innocence of appellant and not of DeMore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fondren
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.