State v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1968 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado (1949)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be mentioned in this place that, though papers and other subjects of evidence may have been illegally taken from the possession of the party, against whom they are offered, or otherwise unlawfully obtained, this is no valid objection to their admissibility if they are pertinent to the issue. The Court will not take notice how they were obtained, whether lawfully or unlawfully, nor will it form an issue to determine that question.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Green · State v. McDuffie“Indeed, it cannot properly be said a trial is commenced until the jury has been sworn and impaneled to try the issues presented by the pleadings and duly charged therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Faries
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.