State v. Childers’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably State v. McCullough (2012), State v. Childers (1977)
38 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. Boyd · State v. Masqua · State v. Clark · State v. Wilson · State v. Weyer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases where the crime charged may include some lesser crime it is the duty of the trial court to instruct the jury, not only as to the crime charged but as to all lesser crimes of which the accused might be found guilty under the information or indictment and upon the evidence adduced, even though such instructions have not been requested or have been objected to.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams · State v. Woods““Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice, which is done unintentionally in the wanton commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act in an unlawful or wanton manner. “. . . As used in this section, an ‘unlawful act’ is any act which is prohibited by a statute of the United States or the state of Kansas or an ordinance of any city within the state, which statute or ordinance is enacted for the protection of human life or safety.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Crispin““The state presented a strong case to support its theory that the defendant’s killing of Frost met the second degree murder requirements of K. S. A. 21-3402. . . .” (p. 416.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Childers
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.