State v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1926
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not alleged that the judge’s charge was incorrect or was not clearly expressed. The attempt is made to support the ground [thus set up, for a new trial] by the affidavit of one of the jurors; but he cannot be permitted to impeach the verdict,” (Italics ours.) ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Veillon
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.