State v. Hyland’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Stice v. State (1950), State v. Sykes (1963)
25 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 State v. Emory
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was not a scintilla of evidence tending to show any assault on defendant by deceased, nor the slightest reason why defendant should have apprehended any design upon the part of deceased to kill him, or inflict any bodily harm, previous to the deadly assault which caused his death”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, on purpose, and of his malice aforethought, with his fist in and upon the body, jaw, and head of him the said David Fitzgerald, did strike, knock, hit and beat,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beard“It was as much murder to kill deceased with his fist under the circumstances as if he had shot him with a loaded revolver or stabbed him with a sword.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beard
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.