Dennis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Rowe v. State (1943), Reeves v. State (1914)
44 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 Hornsby v. State · Brown v. State · Pierson v. State · Tidwell v. State · Compton 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because of the difficulty which sometimes arises to distinguish between the most aggravated cases of manslaughter in the first degree, and the mildest type of murder in the second degree, it has been declared ‘that it is much the safer rule to charge upon all the degrees'of the homicide included in the indictment when the party is on trial for murder, unless it is perfectly clear to the judicial mind, that there is no evidence tending to bring the offense within some particular degree.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson 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.