King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2017
23 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 Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Graham v. State · Jones v. State · Bean v. State · Walker v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unquestionably a prosecuting attorney is given a broad scope of discretion in the performance of his duties. This discretion extends to the power to investigate and determine who shall be prosecuted and the crime with which those parties will be charged. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Waldon“] a special class of cases where the regular prosecutor has a conflict.... However, our law does not contemplate the existence of two public prosecutors within the same jurisdiction exercising the same or similar functions....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Waldon“indictment signed by a de facto special prosecutor is not subject to collateral attack by a motion to dismiss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Waldon
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.