Buffalow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably McGuff v. State (1946), Sanders v. State (1942)
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 Bluett v. State · Watts v. State · McAnally v. State · Davis v. State · Bluitt 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If one assaulted, suddenly and under the maddening influence of the blow, slays his assailant, and there is nothing else in the transaction, this is manslaughter, and not murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perry 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.