State v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1984
16 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 People v. Townsend · People v. Barnes · State v. Goldstone · Ronning v. State · State v. Peterson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Common sense, in the absence of any statute on the subject, suggests that for an intoxicated person to undertake to drive an automobile on a much traveled highway is gross or culpable negligence. And, if such negligence is shown to result in so driving as to Strike down and kill a person traveling in the proper place upon the highway, there should be no difficulty in finding that the driver’s culpable negligence caused the homicide.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bolsinger““* * * These contentions are fallacious. The state had no greater burden than to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was culpably negligent in driving his automobile * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ewing
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.