State v. Beuerman’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State v. Keehn (1911), State v. Shultz (1978)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co v. Lathrop · State v. Smith · Meredeth v. People · Palin v. State · Baughman v. Baughman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here can be no court without a judge, and he cannot even temporarily relinquish control of the court or the conduct of the trial. It is necessary that he should hear all that transpires in the trial in order that he may intelligently review the proceedings upon the motion for a new trial. It is especially important that he should be visibly present every moment of the actual progress of a criminal trial where the highest penalty of the law may be imposed. The defendant is entitled to be tried in a court duly constituted, and if the presiding judge abandons the trial or relinquishes control over the proceedings the accused has good cause to complain. [Citations omitted.] The fact that the court may not see or hear everything occurring in the court-room, or that he may step into an adjoining room, but not out of hearing of the proceedings, is not necessarily prejudicial to the interests of the defendant in every case; but the presiding judge cannot safely absent himself from the trial or relinquish control over the proceedings during the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.