Owen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1995
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the failure of appellant to appear for trial in the prosecution of his appeal, as he was bound to do, the court might have ordered him brought in on bench warrant or capias. But the court thought proper, on such failure, to dismiss his appeal, which it had the discretion to do, and which left the judgment of the justice standing and to be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State““* * * [T]he court was not legally obliged to permit the trial to proceed in his absence. It was, as we have held in other cases, matter of discretion in the court, and a practice not to be commended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Super
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.