Bass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Oliver v. State (1936), Woodard v. State (1950)
42 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 Cross v. State · Jones v. State · Spicer v. State · Rollings v. State · Spooney 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he question called for evidence of a collective fact, -whether or not his father had threatened to kill his mother, and not an opinion of the witness. If the exact language is desired, it could be ascertained on further examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holifield 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.