State v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1999
15 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. Hodges · State v. Wells
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reasons for the distinction which formerly prevailed in England between prosecutions for felonies and 'for misdemeanors no longer exist. Where the usual punishment for the commission of a felony was death, great strictness in charging the offense, as well as in the mode of trial, was and ought to have been maintained; but in this state, and in this country generally, there is no broad distinction between the character of the punishment inflicted for misdemeanors and for felonies other than murder. . . . The mode of trial in all cases is substantially the same, and in cases like the one under consideration, where the proof must necessarily be in part the same on all of the charges, it seems entirely proper to join charges of separate transactions of similar character. The tendency of the courts in most of the states seems to be to uphold the practice and follow the rule adopted in the case of The State v. Hodges, supra. (10 Encycl. Pl. & Pr. 547, et seq.)” (p. 98.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bell
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.