Kwallek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Hopkinson v. State (1981), Grabill v. State (1980)
39 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 Michelson v. United States · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · People v. . Molineux · Greer v. United States · State v. Aubuchon
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when two persons are indicted for separate offenses growing out of the same circumstance, the fact that one has pleaded guilty is inadmissible against the other.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Urrutia v. State · Wells v. State“the jury was left with the impression that, since the total evidence connected the defendant with [his co-conspirator] in the altercation with [the victim], the court must have wanted the jury to understand that, since [the co-conspirator] had pleaded guilty, it must be that the defendant is also guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Urrutia v. State · Mazurek v. State“(1) Evidence of a pertinent trait of his character offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same[.]”
4 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.