Eversole v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1937
22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To make such a statement as that coming from the deceased, admissible as a dying declaration, it must be made when the party is in extremis and has given up all hope of this life; but whether this be so or not, may be determined, not only by what he may say, but by Ms evident danger and by all the surrounding circumstances. The injured party need not in express words declare that he knows he is about to die or make use of equivalent language.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.