Billings v. Tile State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably Bennett v. State (1896), Taggart v. Tevanny (1891)
30 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 Sanders v. State · Weaver v. State · Ginn v. Collins · Tindall v. State · Shoffner 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The estate of a decedent is a person in legal contemplation. 'The word person/ says Mr. Abbott, in its legal signification, is a generic term, and includes artificial as well as natural persons.’ 2 Abb. Law Dic. 271; Douglass v. Pacific, etc., Co., 4 Cal. 304 ; Planters’ etc. Bank v. Andrews, 8 Port. (Ala.) 404. It is said in another work that ‘Persons are of two kinds, natural and artificial. A natural person is a human being. Artificial persons include (1) a collection or succession of natural persons forming a corporation; (2) a collection of property to which the law attributes the capacity of having rights and duties. The latter class of artificial persons is only recognized to a limited extent in our law; examples are, the estate of a bankrupt or deceased person.’ 2 Rapalje & Lawrence Law. Dict. 954.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No objection was made below in any form to the failure of the court to arraign the defendant or to require him to plead to the indictment. The question is made for the first time by the assignment of errors in this court. If the question had been properly saved, it would be our duty to reverse the judgment, for in criminal cases there must be a plea, as a trial without a plea is certainly erroneous. ... On the authority of Shoffner v. State, 93 Ind. 519 , it ‘must, however, be held that the question is not properly presented. It should have been presented, as that case declares, by a motion for a new trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacoby 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.