State v. Rook’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1966
17 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 Weaver v. State · Ulmer v. State · Norton v. Peck · In re Clyne · Thompson v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A uniform line of decisions has maintained the proposition that no error, however flagrant, committed by the court against the state can be reserved by it for decision by the supreme court when the defendant has once been placed in jeopardy and discharged, even though the discharge was the result of the error committed. This for the reason that the accused, having been once in jeopardy, cannot be retried, after reversal of the case, upon the state’s appeal, and the questions presented, being therefore moot in their nature, will not be considered by the court.” (Citing many decisions.) (p. 385.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Aurell““In Junction City v. Keeffe, supra, a very general statement of the meaning of the phrase ‘question reserved by the state’ was made. It was there remarked; ‘We believe the phrase “question reserved by the state” is any exception embodied in a bill of exceptions where a defendant has been discharged for any cause except upon a trial on the merits, and the two exceptions named, supra.’ The exceptions referred to are judgments for defendants quashing indictments or informations and orders arresting the judgment. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ramirez““While the statute (Gen. Stat. 1897, ch. 83, §30; Gen. Stat. 1899, §5529) gives to the state a right of appeal ‘upon a question reserved by the state,’ yet, what questions may be reserved by it, or what as a matter of specific’ definition ‘a question reserved by the state’ is, have never been definitely settled.” (p. 385.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Marek
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.