Augustine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2019
19 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. Henry · State v. Johnson · Hartfield v. State · Abney v. State · Magee v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the accused has been protected, so far as counsel can do so, in all of his legal rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That he had seen or known of one man who had been tried for five different murders because the jurors followed the course of least resistance, and turned him loose on the others; that he had seen people go to the penitentiary for five or six year terms, then come out to commit other crimes, and that unless a stern verdict was rendered in this case it would not stop crime, and that people who were sent to the penitentiary were given a pardon or suspension.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the common understanding of 'stick-up' is a hold-up, usually by use of a pistol.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.