State v. Council’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1999
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Was it error for the trial judge to charge the jury the legal effect of the use of opprobrious and insulting words by one who pleads self-defense? The charge was rendered necessary by the evidence. A man may deprive himself of the right of self-defense by words as well as by acts, and the judge was bound to tell the jury so.””
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.