State v. Kearns’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2014
3 federal appellate · 15 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 United States v. Sharpe · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Estelle v. Dorrough · Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Missouri has long had the rule that a defendant who escapes or flees the jurisdiction of its courts either during trial or in the process of post-trial proceedings forfeits his rights to an appeal upon the merits of the cause.” ... In one form or another, this principle is recognized by most courts, including the United States Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gillispie“almost certain prejudice to the state in the event of a remand for a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Troupe
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.