Acers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 388 · 1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987 · most notably State v. Corchado (1982), State v. Jenkins (1986)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 The People v. . Irving
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a great injury to the person injured that would maim him, or that would be permanent in its character, or that might produce death. * * That there was danger to his life or of deadly violence to his person, and unless that condition existed then there is no ground upon which this proposition can stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Butler““ * * * it is not sufficient that the defendant claims that he believed he was in danger, but that it is essential that there were reasonable grounds for such belief * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones
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.