Carver v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
13 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 122 So. 2d 789 - Bagley v. State · 1 Smith & H. 83 - Wiggins v. State · Witt v. Ellis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the cardinal principles and reasons for the existence of criminal law is to punish the guilty for acts contrary to the laws adopted by society. The defendant in this case having died is relieved of all punishment by human hands and the determination of his guilt or innocence is now assumed by the ultimate arbiter of all human affairs.” Id., 398 S.W.2d at 720 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abatement, in the sense of the common law, is an entire overthrow or destruction of the suit, so that it is quashed and ended. At common law, a suit, when abated, is absolutely dead. [Citation omitted.] ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e hold that all proceedings in this case against Carver are abated ab initio.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carlin
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.