Lilly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 27 Md. App. 361 - Cummings v. State (1975), 4 Md. App. 236 - State v. Gibson (1968)
44 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 Clay v. State · Duren v. State · Miller v. Graff · Hughes v. State · Fowler v. DeFontes
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These cases have uniformly recognized that in order to constitute gross negligence, the conduct of the defendant must be such as to amount to a wanton or reckless disregard for human life or for the rights of others.” (emphasis supplied).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If there is found such lack of control, whether by reason of speed, or otherwise, in a place and at a time when there is a constant potentiality of injury as a result, there can be found a wanton and reckless disregard of the rights and lives of others and so, criminal indifference to consequences.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person causing the death of another as the result of the driving, operation or control of an automobile, motor vehicle, * * * in a grossly negligent manner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor to be known as ‘manslaughter by automobile * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State · State v. Kramer
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.