State v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1981
2 federal appellate · 16 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 State v. Ward · State v. Elkin · State v. Wilbanks · State v. Hall
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Negligent homicide is the killing of a human being by criminal negligence. The violation of a statute or ordinance shall be considered only as presumptive evidence of such negligence. Whoever commits the crime of negligent homicide shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years." (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The violation of a statute or ordinance shall be considered only as presumptive evidence of such [criminal] negligence." R.S. 14:32, 39. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gross deviation below the standard of care expected to be maintained by a reasonably careful man”
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.