Duron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Nix v. State (2001), Teal v. State (2007)
54 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 Studer v. State · Adams v. State · Cook v. State · Thompson v. State · King v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant does not object to a defect, error, or irregularity of form or substance in an indictment or information before the date on which the trial on the merits commences, he waives and forfeits the right to object to the defect, error, or irregularity and he may not raise the objection on appeal or in any other postconviction proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Thomas · State v. Smith“An indictment is a written instrument presented to a court by a grand jury charging a person with the commission of an offense. An information is a written instrument presented to a court by tin attorney for the State charging a person with the commission of an offense. The practice and procedures relating to the use of indictments and informations, including their contents, amendment, sufficiency, and requisites, are as provided by law. The presentment of an indictment or information to a court invests the court with jurisdiction of the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Thomas“... The presentment of an indictment or information to a court invests the court with jurisdiction of the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Crumpton 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.