Selman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2004
5 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 Glasser v. United States · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ledbetter v. United States · Alcorta v. Texas · 58 Cal. 2d 732 - People v. Marsh
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the allegation that a crime was committed "on or about" a certain date is sufficient, though the precise time is not thereby stated, except in cases in which time is an ingredient of the offense. Such [an] allegation is a formal and not a material matter within the meaning of [former 18 U.S.C.A. § 556 ], which provides that no indictment shall be deemed insufficient by reason of any defect in matter of form only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larkin v. State“No indictment is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment[,] or other proceedings thereon be affected, by reason of a defect or imperfection in matter of form in the indictment which does not tend to prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larkin v. State
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.