Cantrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1980
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Rhea v. State · Dunn v. State · Chapline v. State · Cumnock 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the court committed no error in admitting the proof of the dying declaration. The admissibility of such evidence is a preliminary question to be determined by the court, after a consideration of the proof of the conditions which make such evidence admissible. * * * “As has been said, no question would be made as to the competency of this evidence but for the fact that deceased, in speaking of his death, said: ‘If I am going to die, I might as well die first as last.’ The conjunction ‘if’ is frequently employed where doubt is entertained, but its use is not conclusive of the existence of doubt. Its dictionary meaning is: “'In ease that; granting, allowing or supposing that; on condition that; used in introducing a conditional sentence or clause; as I will go if you do; if he is there, I shall see him.’ Century Dictionary. “Proof of other statements made by deceased contemporaneously with the above tend to show that deceased did not entertain the hope of recovery. In passing upon this question it was proper for the court not to limit its consideration to the single sentence, but to take into account all of the circumstances, including everything that was said on that subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.