State v. John’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1970
12 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. Munn · Wellar v. People · State v. Hyland
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only that the defendant struck him with his fist, but knocked him down with great force and violence on the stone pavement, and by the combined force of the blow and the fall on the hard pavement the mortal wounding was accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beard
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.