State v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1977
1 district · 16 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. Jackson · State v. Leonard · State v. Bruin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The practice is well settled and firmly established in this state that a motion to compel the prosecution to elect the count on which the trial shall be had is always addréssed to the discretion of the court, and this court will not interfere with the exercise of this discretion, unless it is manifest that it has been abused to the obvious and palpable detriment of the accused. It is often indispensably necessary to include several counts in the same indictment, to meet the proofs which may be given on the trial; and to arbitrarily compel an election in-all instances would tend to cripple prosecutions and defeat the ends of justice,” — citing State v. Jackson, 17 Mo. 544 ; State v. Leonard, 22 Mo. 449 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.