State v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably State v. Williams (1935), State v. Beckner (1906)
29 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 Farris v. People · State v. Grant · Maloney v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · State v. Harris · National Bank of the Metropolis v. Williams
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a person joins a conspiracy already existent, he thereby ratifies any acts done or threats previously made by the conspirators in furtherance of the common design; but in order to fasten the guilt of such antecedent acts or threats on such newly-joined conspirator, it is a sine qua non to establish that the conspiracy was afoot when the acts were done or the threats made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“Where two combine to fight a third with fists, if death accidentally results from a blow inflicted by one, the other also is answerable for the homicide. But if the one resorts to a deadly weapon without the other's knowledge or consent, he only is thus liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Craft
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.