Garrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Cooper v. State (1889), Trout v. State (1887)
34 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 Myers v. Murphy · Barnett v. Harshbarger · Haas v. Shaw · Stott v. Smith · Dodge v. Kinzy
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the law of this State, we think, that if a man unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully and maliciously sets fire to and burns the dwelling-house of his wife, wherein she permits him to live with her as her husband, he is guilty of the crime of arson, as such crime is defined in our statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dively
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.