Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Barker v. State (1958), Musser v. State (1901)
51 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 Deal v. State · Epps v. State · Staser v. Hogan · Fahnestock v. State · Worley v. Moore
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the fact, therefore, that appellant in his testimony to the jury testified to some matters . . . which might have given color, or tended to make it appear to the jurors in the event they believed that appellant did cast the fatal stone, that he was justified in so doing, under the belief, upon his part, that the deceased intended to inflict upon him bodily harm, we can not hold, in a legal sense, that the instructions thus, assailed were wholly irrelevant and inapplicable to the-evidence. It was 'the duty of the court, under the statute, at least, to state to the jury all matters of law"for their information in arriving at a verdict. If there-were any facts or circumstances in the case, although quite meager, to which the instructions might, upon any view, be pertinent, provided they were correct in the statement of the law, it would not be -error for- the-court to give them, although they were so given to the-jury over the protest and disclaimer of appellant’s counsel. A judge, in his instructions to a jury, has a duty* to perform, in the discharge of which he can not. be circumscribed or controlled by the protest or disclaimer of a litigant.” (Page 122.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackett““It is not disclosed by the record that the statements of appellant to the jury were not referred to, or made use of, by his counsel in their argument in'his behalf, and, as we are bound to indulge all reasonable presumptions in support of the action of the trial court, we must presume that counsel did exercise this right, ’1 etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burris
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.