State v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1990
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The excellence of trial by jury in criminal causes can not be overestimated, for it is in such causes that the accused have the right to demand that the truth of every accusation ... shall be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve men of his equals, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. MacHia“[t]he word `jury,' as used in the constitution, means a common law jury of twelve men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. MacHia
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.