State v. Sandiford’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 1974 · most notably State v. Dreher (1928), State v. Thornhill (1937)
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 State v. Ford · State v. Boudreaux · State v. Ardoin · State v. Kellogg · State v. Golden
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.
“"The question whether the defendant or the deceased was the aggressor in the fatal difficulty is a question of fact; and, under the plea of self-defense, as in this case, it is the only question of fact upon which depends the guilt or innocence of the party accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harvey“shall also extend to criminal cases on questions of law alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harvey
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.