State v. Santana’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970), In the Interest of J.F.C. (2002)
44 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 Brinegar v. United States · Gault · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Holland v. United States · Kent v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the ordinary civil case, the alleged error in the charge to the jury would be considered as waived [because of the absence of objection]. But in view of the constitutional importance of this case to the public generally, and in view of the fact that juvenile proceedings are not designed to be conducted as ordinary adversary proceedings, the point raises a question of fundamental error, and it will be so treated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. RAM v. State · R. A. M. v. State“conducted with dignity and fairness and with the essentials of due process being observed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. RAM v. State · Gao 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.