State v. Vinzant’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 639 So. 2d 216 - Ambrose v. New Orleans Police Amb. Serv. (1994), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Mijalis (1994)
2 federal appellate · 126 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. Dark · State v. Flattmann · State v. Goldstein · State v. Hudgens · State v. Porter
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“want of that diligence which even careless men are accustomed to exercise.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the defendant had been charged with the crime of manslaughter, the punishment for which is necessarily imprisonment at hard labor, he should have been tried by a jury of 12, and, therefore, the record, which shows that he was tried by a jury of five, discloses a patent error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Clearly, the words `willfully' and `wantonly' are not synonymous with the words `negligently' and `recklessly', the former implying intention or deliberation and the latter mere carelessness or lack of due and reasonable care or disregard for the rights and safety of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.