State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2013
10 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. Adams · State v. Carroll · State v. Brown · State v. Wade
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendants were indicted for the murder of Sidney Bailey. They were also indicted for the murder of Edgar Bailey. Before they were arraigned, their attorneys made a motion to join the indictments, on the ground that they arose out of one and the same difficulty, and that the deaths of Edgar Bailey and Sidney Bailey were the result of one and the same impulse. The motion was overruled, and this presents the first assignment of error. It is only necessary to cite the following cases to show that such motions are addressed to the discretion of the presiding judge: State v. Carroll, 30 S. C. 85, 8 S. E. 433 , 14 Am. St. Rep. 883 ; State v. Wade, 95 S. C. 387, 79 S. E. 106 ; State v. Brown, 108 S. C. 490, 95 S. E. 61 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hinson“The evidence as to the previous difficulty was competent only to show the animus of the parties, and thus aid the jury in reaching a conclusion as to who was probably the aggressor, and what demeanor each party had reason to expect from the other when they met and the fatal difficulty *Page 364 occurred. The general details of the previous trouble were properly excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Abercrombie
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.