Jackson v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Seals v. State (1968), American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid (1927)
66 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 Best Park & Amusement Co. v. Rollins · Dwight Manufacturing Co. v. Holmes · Clinton Mining Co. v. Bradford · Miller v. Whittington · Morrison v. Clark
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sixth assignment is that reversible error was committed in overruling the objection to the question propounded to witness J. F. Knox: “ ‘Did anybody point out to you the points where the boy was standing, or where he was struck, or anything of that kind?’ “This interrogatory, without more, had a tendency to elicit hearsay evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seals 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.