Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Jones v. State (1988), Waters v. State (1981)
141 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 Keener v. State · Monroe v. State · Doyal v. State · Williams v. State · Fletcher 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He said that his conscience did not bother him any more about killing Reid than if he had killed a damned dog. He said he was sorry for his wife and on Reid's wife's account”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. State“Having willingly engaged in the affray, he is in equal fault with the other, and under such circumstances it is not justifiable for him to slay his adversary without more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a word, it is the exclusive province of the jury, under all the attendant circumstances and conditions, to determine whether a witness has or has not been impeached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore 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.