State v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1993
16 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. Tiedt · State v. Raspberry · State v. Heinrich · State v. Hagerman · State v. Berry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““MISDEMEANOR INFORMATION THOMAS J. MARSHALL, Prosecuting Attorney in and for the County of Randolph, on behalf of the State of Missouri, upon official oath informs the Court as follows: That WAYNE JOHNSON, in the County of Randolph, State of Missouri, did then and there wilfully and unlawfully, on or about the 1st day of August, 1975, conspire with four other persons, to-wit: Raymond Lee Whelchel, James N. Baker, Dennis R. Baker, and David Baker, to commit a misdemeanor, to-wit: stealing from Howard Fleming, contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Missouri. /S/ Thomas J. Marshall Prosecuting Attorney Filed Aug. 5, 1975” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.