People v. Pavlic’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
17 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Thiede 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is well illustrated in those cases where one kills another while driving an automobile at an unlawful rate of speed. The unlawful act of exceeding the speed limit is not in itself criminal, but if done in a careless manner, in reckless disregard of the safety of others, and death results, the offender is guilty of involuntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the liquor which the defendant furnished ... was dangerous for use as a beverage, if it was of greater potency than ordinary whisky, or if it contained poisonous ingredients, ... the defendant having distilled it himself would be charged with a knowledge of its dangerous character, and would be guilty of involuntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas“Notwithstanding the fact that the statute has declared it to be a felony, it is an act not in itself directly and naturally dangerous to life.”
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.