Bigham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Harden v. State (1924), Wesson v. State (1939)
29 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 Sharp v. State · Hill v. State · Patton v. State · Wilson v. State · Nelson v. Iverson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One must retreat . . . unless he would thereby increase his peril, or it reasonably appears that his peril would be thereby increased.”
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.