State v. . Gilchrist’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1973
12 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing herein contained shall be construed to require any alteration or modification of the existing form of indictment for murder, but the jury before whom the offender is tried shall determine in their verdict whether the crime is murder in the first or second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Covington“The verdict should be taken in connection with the charge of his Honor and the evidence in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Wiggins
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.