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State v. . Ashburn’s Empirical Analysis

1924

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
February 1978
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1978

15 state decisions

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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. Lane · State v. . Haney · State v. . Spencer · State v. . Davis · State v. . Barnhill

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “evidence that a third party had malice towards the deceased, a motive to take his life and an opportunity to do so, and had made threats against him, and that some time before deceased was killed he went in the direction of deceased's house with a deadly weapon, threatening to kill him, was inadmissible,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. . Lane
  2. “The judge may caution them against reposing hasty confidence in the testimony of an accomplice. . . . Long usage, sanctioned by deliberate judicial approbation, has given to this ordinary caution a precision which makes it approach a rule of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. . Miller
  3. “If the defendant made no such contention, he should have called the court's attention to it, so that the correction could be made at the time.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Smith

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.