State v. Caffey’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Caffey (1970), State v. Mucie (1970)
26 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 Pauling v. McElroy · Flying Tiger Line, Inc. v. Philippine Air Lines, Inc. · State v. Laster · State v. Burnett · State v. Burton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On this appeal defendant, who was allowed to proceed as a poor person, appeared pro se, orally arguing his cause and submitting a main brief, and a reply brief to the State’s brief. He advised the court that although he had counsel on this appeal there was some disagreement between them and that he chose to proceed pro se.” State v. Caffey, supra, 365 S.W.2d at 609 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caffey v. Swenson“if in the opinion of the trial court the conviction is proper but the punishment assessed is greater than, under the circumstances of the case, ought to be inflicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McClanahan
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.