State v. Bachelder’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2025
13 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 Dardi v. United States · State v. Collins · Bennett v. State · Medina v. People · Hoy 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During a jury trial the presiding justice shall rule and charge the jury, orally or in writing, upon all matters of law arising in the case but shall not, during the trial, including the charge, express an opinion upon issues of fact arising in the case, and such an expression of opinion is sufficient cause for a new trial if either party aggrieved thereby and interested desires it, and the same shall be ordered accordingly by the law court on appeal in a civil or criminal case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“conscious assertion of possession,” or that the recently stolen goods were found in a location where they were placed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ketchum“acted in concert” with the other person or persons in possession of the property as a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ketchum
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.