State v. Banton.’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1983
19 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. Richards · Neff v. City of Cameron · State v. McDaniel · State v. Phillips · Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Fox
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases of homicide, the evidence giv'en by the witnesses [at the preliminary hearing] shall be reduced to writing by the magistrate, or under his direction, and shall be signed by the witnesses respectively."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holt · State v. Clark
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.