State v. . Limerick’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2009
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly, if the prisoner intentionally pointed the gun at the deceased and it was then discharged, inflicting the wound of which he died, or if the prisoner was at the time guilty of culpable negligence in the way he handled and dealt with the gun, and by reason of such negligence the gun was discharged, causing the death of deceased, in either event the prisoner would be guilty of manslaughter, and this whether the discharge of the gun was intentional or accidental.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The deceased and prisoner seemed to be great friends. That witness was hunting and came up with them; they seemed to be laughing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. S. v. . Trollinger“* * * I turned around, and saw the gun fire, and deceased fell. Prisoner had gun when deceased fell.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kluckhohn
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.