State v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2019
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.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Macloon · Cox v. . the People · Watson v. State · Dolan v. . People · People v. Pearne
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These allegations are sufficient. A parent who, by culpable negligence, fails to provide care, nurture, sustenance and medical assistance to a child wholly incapable of supplying its own wants, and so causes its death is, under this statute, guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'without a design to effect death' ... was to dispense with allegation and proof of any such design. It cannot be supposed that the Legislature meant thereby to require affirmative allegation or proof by the state that the killing was absolutely without any design to effect death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.