Patty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Weathersby v. State (1933), Eagan v. State (1942)
58 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 Houston v. State · Hawthorne 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It was said in Hawthorne v. State, 58 Miss. 778 , where one is accused of murder, the law presumes him to be innocent until the contrary is made to appear; but, if it be shown that he killed the deceased with a deadly weapon, the general presumption of innocence yields to the specific proof, and the law infers that the killing, if unexplained, was malicious, and therefore murder; but, if the attendant circumstances be shown in evidence by the state or the accused, the character of the killing is to be determined by considering them; and if, upon a consideration of all of the evidence, the jury trying the case are not satisfied, to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt, they should not convict. * * * ” ( 126 Miss. at 97-98 , 88 So. at 499 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.