Gordon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Smith v. State (1916), Pippin v. State (1916)
28 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 Griffith v. State · Douglass v. Tousey · Clifton v. State · Rutledge v. State · Harkness 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the offense of throwing [a] stone in a railroad train,' " because "a wanton or malicious throwing into a car of a railroad train is . . . neither a common-law felony nor an offense within the description crimen falsi. . . . The conviction of [the witness] for throwing stones . . . was not the proper subject of proof for the purpose of affecting his credibility or other purpose; and the admission of the record relating thereto was error for which the judgment must be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.