Rector v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State (1978), Blue v. State (1944)
61 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 Way v. State · City Council of Montgomery v. Wright · Johnson v. State · Lewis v. State · Dennis 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the indictment in this case, the defendant was subject to conviction of any of the degrees of felonious homicide other than murder in the first degree [the indictment charging murder in the second degree]. Although he may not have intended to kill the deceased, if he intentionally committed upon him an assault which in its nature was calculated to produce death and as a result thereof death ensued, he would be guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Threats made by the defendant against the deceased on trial for homicide are always admissible as a circumstance to show malice, and the lapse of time does not render the evidence of such threats inadmissible. . . . ””
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.