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Baugh v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1927

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
4
states following
July 2009
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Vaughn v. State (1938), Gast v. State (1936)

2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions

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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 Cox v. State · Jones v. State · Pippin v. State · Watts v. State · Lakey 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"A person attacked in his own dwelling, under conditions otherwise entitling him to strike in self-defense, is not required to retreat although his assailant also resides in the same dwelling. There is no place to which the law requires him to retreat. * * *"”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[General bad character] testimony is to be considered only in passing upon the weight and credibility of [the defendant's] evidence, not as evidence of guilt of the offense charged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “A jury should be credited with being men of fair intelligence, desiring nothing but to do their duty under oath.”
    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.