State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1992 · most notably Donnelly v. United States (1913), State v. Montgomery (1976)
51 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. Meyers · State v. Moxley · State v. Musick · State v. Hayes · State v. Gabriel
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What harm the mere anticipatory presence of the pistol on the table could do the cause of the defendant is very difficult to conceive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pugh
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.