State v. Golden’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1982 · most notably State v. Edwards (1982), State v. Dreher (1928)
33 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. Ford · State v. Kellogg · State v. Forbes · State v. Stewart · State v. Perioux
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is for the trial judge, and not the jury, to determine whether an overt act by the deceased immediately preceding the killing has been sufficiently proved on the trial of the person accused of the homicide to open the door to evidence of prior difficulties between such accused and the deceased, and of prior threats, and of the dangerous character of deceased.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Jefferson
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.