Swain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1980
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 Mack v. State · State v. King · Gears v. State · Cole v. State · Perkins 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of these assertions are merely unsworn statements. There is nothing in the record to show what investigation was made by Mr. Crabtree, ,nor what attention he gave to the case. . . . There was little that any attorney could do for the appellant in the trial of the case. . . . There was no conflict of any kind in the evidence and no reason in our judgment for criticism of Mr. Crabtree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swain v. State““When the facts prove the allegations of an indictment which charges the crime defined by the second sentence of §2412, supra, they prove first degree murder, and where, as here, there is no evidence adduced which proves anything but murder in the perpetration of a robbery, the court is not required to instruct the jury on second degree murder or manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dull v. State
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.