Humphreys v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1980
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““40-2516. Charge in writing in felony cases. — On the trial of all felonies, every word of the judge’s charge shall be reduced to writing' before given to the jury, and no part of it whatever shall be delivered orally in any such case, but shall be delivered wholly in writings Every word of the charge shall be written, and read from the writing, which shall be filed with' the papers, and the jury shall take it out ivith them upon their retirement.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McElhaney v. State
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.