State v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2000
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The settled rule in this state is that it is bad practice to join in the same indictment counts for distinct felonies of differing degrees, differently punished, and that, if that be done, the court may, in its discretion, on timely and proper objection, quash the indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [circuit] court exercised the discretion, given it in such cases, correctly, that the prisoner might not be embarrassed in his defense, and relieve itself of the embarrassment which might have arisen as to what judgment to render on a general verdict of guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“two distinct felonies of different degrees and different punishments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon 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.