State v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), State v. Hernandez (1993)
92 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber · Boulden v. Holman
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the law is to be changed, it is for the legislature to do it — not us. (citation omitted). We are not heedless of the plea that this is a more enlighted day than were those of years gone by, and that views of what is and what is not right have changed with the passage of time. However, we perceive our responsibility as being confined to interpreting the law as we understand it, not to making of new law to satisfy our conceptions of right or wrong, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . where a prospective juror states that he has an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of a defendant based upon something he had heard or read, he can nevertheless qualify as a juror if he asserts that he could and would lay aside any such views, and reach a decision solely on the law and evidence as presented in the trial." [Emphasis ours]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fransua
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.