Passley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2006
8 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 Patterson v. State · Wright v. State · Sullivan v. State · Adams v. State · McBride v. Mosley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'wilful killing of an unborn child so far developed as to be ordinarily called 'quick', by any injuiy to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, shall be punished by death or imprisonment for life, as the jury may recommend.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hampton
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.