State v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Wood (1980), State v. Shurn (1993)
2 federal appellate · 51 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. Burton · State v. Chernick · State v. Garrison · State v. Logan.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The corpus delicti cannot be presumed and must be proved by legal evidence to show the crime charged has been committed by someone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunziker
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.