Shilling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Civil Rights Cases · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Osborne v. County of Adams · Alonzo Bailey v. State of Alabama · Butchers' Union Slaughter-House Live-Stock Landing Co v. Crescent Slaughter-House Co
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.
“`An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint, or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary which is performed under duress.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitzgerald 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.