State v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably Fields v. State (1978), Baines v. Swenson (1967)
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Massiah v. United States · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Avery v. State of Alabama
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.
“The provisions of the [second offender] statute permit the trial judge to hear the evidence of prior convictions outside the presence of the jury, to make findings thereon prior to the submission of the issue of guilt or innocence to the jury, and to assess the punishment of the defendant if he is found guilty by the jury. This procedure does not constitute a trial for separate or different offenses; it goes only to the matter of punishment. The procedure in the statute, and indeed the prior statute, have been held impervious to attacks upon their constitutionality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Juralos““The statute and the procedure are valid for all purposes and against all such constitutional attacks. Such a point should be denied peremptorily in future cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gardner
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.