Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Alexander (1958), Weaver v. Mitchell (1986)
46 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 Goddard v. Ordway · Gleckman v. United States · Grover Irrigation & Land Co. v. Lovella Ditch, Reservoir & Irrigation Co. · 160 Pa. Super. 165 - Commonwealth v. Blose · State v. Faulkner
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases of misdemeanors tried before justices of the peace, or the district courts of this state, by indictment or information, in which the defendant may be convicted, the punishment shall be within the discretion of the court, limited as penalties now are by law, except that payment of the costs of prosecution may be added to and made a part of the sentence, * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State · Seaton v. State“... The right to trial by jury in criminal prosecutions is inviolate and may not be hampered either directly or indirectly...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“amounts to coercion and infringes a constitutional safeguard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.