State v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2004
10 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 State v. Castino · State v. Kimball · State v. Thursby · State v. Barron · State v. Sanders
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . I can't see any useful purpose in this line of inquiry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Embry · State v. Webber““The mere criticism of counsel is not ordinarily considered a ground for reversal.... The reprimanding of counsel during the progress of a trial is largely within the discretion of a trial court.” Such a general rule necessarily is acceptable as a standard to establish that one person, the judge, must be in charge of the courtroom to assure an orderly trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moffitt“the defense being offered was tenuous at best; but, if admissible at all, defendant was entitled to have it presented to the jury free of the stamp of disapproval placed there by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Embry
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.