Henderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008
22 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 · Sanders v. State · State v. Gilbert · Langston v. State · State v. Newsom
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we understand the rule, no averment in an indictment can be rejected as surplusage which is descriptive either of the offense or of the manner in which it was committed. All such averments must be proved as laid, or the failure to prove the same as laid will amount to a variance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The charge as to the weapon might have been cumulative, naming various weapons, and the proof of any one would have supported the allegation;...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young 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.