Covert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1971
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roulston v. State · Hudson 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that when a defendant is put upon trial for one offense he is to be convicted, if at all, by evidence which shows that he is guilty of that offense alone and the admission of evidence of other crimes, either prior or subsequent to the offense for which he is on trial is inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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