State v. Garoutte’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1995
16 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 State v. Morf · State v. Gordon · 113 Pa. Super. 70 - Com. of Pa. v. Heckman · 114 Pa. Super. 60 - Davis v. Asquini & American Casualty Co. · State v. Wood
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““19-3401. Compromise of offenses after satisfaction. — When a defendant is held to answer on a charge of misdemeanor, for which the person injured by the act constituting the offense has a remedy by a civil action, the offense may be compromised as provided in the next section . “19-3402. Leave of court required. If the party injured appears before the court to which the depositions are required to be returned, at any time before trial, and acknowledges that he has received satisfaction for the injury, the court may, in its discretion, on payment of the costs incurred, order all proceedings to be stayed upon the prosecution, and the defendant to be discharged therefrom; but in such case the reasons for the order must be set forth therein, and entered on the minútes. The order is a bar to another prosecution for the same offense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The law should treat rich and poor alike, and the fact that a man might be able to pay for damages due to his negligence should not save him from criminal prosecution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The statute * * * divides crimes only into felonies and misdemeanors, and bases its classification on the term and place of imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morales
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.