State v. Musick’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably State v. Taylor (1896), Diggs v. United States (1915)
1 federal appellate · 43 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. Palmer · State v. McLaughlin · State v. Ray · Babcock v. . Eckler · State v. Hayes
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no error in refusing to permit the defendant to introduce testimony to show that after the shooting he had surrendered himself to the sheriff. Such self-serving acts or declarations are wholly inadmissible, and irrelevant to the issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Cleveland““These statements made by the state’s witnesses were not denied by defendant, and therefore stand admitted, as much so as if the defendant had admitted them in terms.””
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.