Karr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2013
18 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 Storey v. State · DeArman v. State · Roberts v. State · Smith v. State · Lang 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The homicide which gave rise to this prosecution was perpetrated on August 28, 1892, and at the entrance of defendant’s dwelling. There is no conflict in the testimony on these points. When shot down and killed, deceased was approaching the door of defendant’s home with a gun in hand, though not raised, or put in position for shooting. There is testimony that deceased had made threats against the life of the accused, and that he was a man of violent and dangerous character . . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. State“There must be some demonstration, or apparent demonstration, of an intent, coupled with ability, to take life or inflict grievous bodily harm, before extreme measures become defensive, and can be resorted to.”
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.