State v. Mellor’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2020
12 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 6 Okla. Crim. 492 - Scott v. State · State v. Barretta · 45 Cal. App. 494 - People v. Miller · 7 Cal. App. 34 - People v. Horton · State v. Converse
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so peculiarly within the observation, province, and discretion of the trial court that we should not interfere with the ruling, except upon a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at several different times had gone to sleep, but only for two or three minutes, just a short time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“heard and understood all that transpired in the courtroom during the trial.”
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.