State v. Fairlamb’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 1961 · most notably People v. Sanders (1896), State v. Snyder (1904)
56 state decisions — followed in 10 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. Young · State v. Wieners · State v. Hopper · State v. Ellis
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not every going away from the place of the homicide that raises the presumption of the guilt of the accused, and when the facts tend to show that the purpose of going away was not to avoid arrest, the instruction should be so framed as to include all the circumstances, that the. defendant may have the benefit of such explanatory facts.” (p. 148.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ryan
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.