Woody v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1969
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Thrawley v. State · Thomas v. . People · Pound v. State · Childers v. Commonwealth · Kennedy 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The holding of the Indiana Supreme Court in Thrawley v. State, 153 Ind. 375 , 55 N. E. 95 , and several other cases decided by that court and cited by counsel for the state, that in murder cases, where the defendant pleads self-defense and introduces evidence for the purpose of showing an apparently felonious assault upon him by the deceased at the time of the homicide, the state may, in rebuttal, prove the good character or reputation of the deceased for peace and quietness, is not the prevailing rule upheld by the great weight of authority. The Supreme Court of Illinois, in Kelly v. People, supra, commenting on the Thrawley decision, said: “ ‘That decision does not appear to. be supported by any authority, and we are not impressed with the reasoning upon which the conclusion rests.’ “We cannot presume that the evidence of the good character of the deceased had no influence on the deliberations of the jury (17 Corpus Juris, 275), and we are satisfied that the admission of such evidence over the objection of the defendant was reversible error.””
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.