Marks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Blackburn v. State (1973), Ritchie v. State (1963)
68 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 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Moore · Keeshin Motor Express Co. v. Glassman · Big Creek Stone Co. v. Seward · Brown v. State · Barker 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is presumed that the Legislature does not intend an absurdity, and such result will be avoided if the terms of the act admit of it by a reasonable construction; and 'absurdity' meaning anything which is so irrational, unnatural, or inconvenient that it cannot be supposed to have been within the intention of men of ordinary intelligence and discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. State““If there is any ground which would have justified its exclusion, it was not error to exclude the evidence, and, without the exhibit before us, we are unable to say that it was erroneously excluded.””
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.