State v. . Killian’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1975
7 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. Smoak · Abernethy v. Board of Commissioners · State v. . Norton · State v. . Church · State v. . Bittings
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The two instructions are so intimately connected with each other that no intelligent jury could have misunderstood what was meant, nor can we reasonably suppose that they would find the fact one way or the other without any evidence, or (725) otherwise than”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Cooper“If the defendant has satisfied you from the evidence that he did not have sufficient mental capacity to commit a crime, he should be acquitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Cooper“of his mental incapacity he should be convicted; but, in the sentence immediately preceding, the court had instructed the jury that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Cooper
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.