State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1988 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1946), State v. Lucas (1959)
52 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Brown v. State · Hunter v. State of New Jersey · Lang v. Mayor of Bayonne · Roesel v. State · McKinney 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all of the evidence adduced between the State and the prisoner on the issue of guilt or innocence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wise““The law does not require full proof of the body of the crime independent of such confession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cooper“The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.