State v. Horner.’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1974
16 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I was in the woods; dog had treed a squirrel; Nichols and Breez came on down the road. Nichols called to me and I answered. He said, `Come on and go with me'; had a warrant; he read it. I said I am not going to do it; he said if I would promise to be at Squire Terry's tomorrow at 3 o'clock, he would go. I refused. He came on me and said to me with an oath, `If you do not go with me I am going to shoot you.' Then I picked up gun and walked off; he shot at me; I ran about 50 yards; he shot again and I threw gun `round and shot; I was going away from him; was out there for a squirrel. I ran against a tree when he was after me — knew deceased was a deputy sheriff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Durham“When a man puts himself in a state of resistance and openly defies the officers of the law, he is not allowed to take advantage of his own wrong, if his life is thereby endangered, and to set up the excuse of self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Durham
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.