Merrill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Erickson v. State (1973), Pulakis v. State (1970)
34 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Jones v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Pointer v. Texas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses and other property, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sleziak v. State · Judd v. State“A conviction shall not be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless it is corroborated by other evidence which tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the crime or the circumstances of the commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulakis v. State“The grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence taken together, if unexplained or uncontra-dicted, would warrant a conviction by the trier of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sleziak 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.