State v. Heitter’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2014
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Malloy v. Hogan · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Sealfon v. United States · United States v. Oppenheimer · Brock v. State of North Carolina
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The applicable test is whether or not the evidence in support of the original charge is absolutely essential to support a conviction of the second charge, [p. 72].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sheeran““.. . no person shall be for the same offense twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans 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.