State v. . Cope’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably State v. Wilkerson (1978), Commonwealth v. Welansky (1944)
87 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Culpable negligence is such recklessness or carelessness, proximately resulting in injury or death, as imports a thoughtless disregard of consequences or a heedless indifference to the safety and rights of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tjaden“`An intentional ... violation of a statute or ordinance, designed for the protection of human life or limb, which proximately results in injury or death, is culpable negligence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lardie“without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tjaden
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.