State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably State v. Selle (1963), State v. Groves (1956)
55 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. Tiedt · State v. Conway · State v. Webb · State v. Burns · State v. Allen
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the trial of a criminal case the [prosecutor] occupies a quasi judicial position. While it is his duty vigorously ... to prosecute in behalf of the State. Yet he is also chargeable with the duty to see that the defendant gets a fair trial and he may not knowingly prejudice the right of the defendant to a fair trial by injecting into the case prejudicial and incompetent matters.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gully · State v. Evans
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.