State v. . Birmingham’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1978
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That unless the first indictment were such as the prisoner might have been convicted upon by proof of the facts contained in the second indictment, an acquittal on the first can be no bar to the second.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Jesse“by which the question is to be decided is, whether the evidence necessary to support the second indictment would have been sufficient to convict the defendant on the first,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Freeman
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.