State v. . Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2007
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When life has been taken in the perpetration of any wrongful or unlawful act, the slayer will be deemed guilty of one of the grades of culpable homicide, notwithstanding the fact that death was unintentional and collateral to the act done”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . McIver“if one person causes the death of another by an act which is in violation of law it will be manslaughter, although not shown to be willful or intentional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . McIver
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.