Baugh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
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
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.
“"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“[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“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.