State v. Start’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1978
4 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. Brooks · In re Barnhouse · In re Millington · State v. Allen · Earls v. Earls
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a defendant has been placed upon trial on a criminal charge and the jury is duly impaneled and sworn, the court cannot arbitrarily discharge the jury before a verdict is returned; and a discharge in such case unless an absolute necessity, and for reasons which are sufficient in law, will operate as an acquittal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tucker““. . . the jury, not having agreed upon a verdict was by the court discharged.” (p. 112.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tucker
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.