Maxville v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · Britt v. North Carolina · Anderson v. Charles
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you have been in this courthouse any length of time at all and you have observed other criminal cases, I know that you must have reflected in counsel’s argument on the thing that perhaps you have heard the same song, second verse, because indeed, I have never heard a defense attorney yet admit that his client was guilty. If I did I would fall flat prone on the floor like the defendant was in the front seat of this car.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.