State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1973
1 district · 5 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No rule of criminal pleading is better established than that which prohibits the joinder of two or more substantive offenses in the same count. A sub stantive offense is one which is complete in itself, and is not dependent upon another. Where several acts relate to the same transaction, and together constitute but one offense, they may be charged in the same count, but not otherwise. Bach count in an indictment must stand or fall by itself. Tlio jury cannot.find a verdict of guilty as to one part and not guilty as to another part of the same count. This strictness of pleading is necessary, in order that the accused may not be in doubt as to the specific charge against which he is called to defend, and,that the court may know what sentence to pronounce.””
1 later decision 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.