Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1979
24 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 Pickens v. State · Tanner v. State · Walker v. State · Goldsmith v. State · White v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Aside from the inartificial manner in which- the charge is drawn, it is vicious in that it is calculated to impress the mind of a juror with the idea that his verdict must be reached and adhered to without the aid of-that consideration and deliberation with his fellow-jurors which the law intends shall take place in the jury room.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Biddle v. State · State v. Shaw
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.