Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Banks (1978), State v. McGee (1935)
5 federal appellate · 43 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 Smith v. Central Vermont Railway Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contest was vigorous, and even acrimonious, but was presided over with composure and eminent fairness by the learned trial judge. It is impossible in so great a trial to exclude minor errors. That so few are shown in the present record is the result of the careful manner in which the case was conducted. We are satisfied that justice has been done the plaintiff in error, and the judgment must be affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. State
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.