Caldwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably County of Sacramento v. Lewis (1998), Stokley v. State (1950)
2 federal appellate · 89 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 Hornsby v. State · Davis v. State · Clem v. State · Daughdrill v. State · Felix 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it may exist and may be entertained while the man slayer is pressing the trigger of the pistol that fired the fatal shot[,] even if it be only for a moment or instant of time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“deliberation here does not mean that the man slayer must ponder over the killing for a long time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pressing the trigger that fired the fatal shot.”
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.