Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2015
22 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 Christen v. State · State v. Litman · Robertson v. State · State Life Insurance v. Postal · Lenahan v. Commonwealth
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A battery is an unlawfully touching (of) the person of another, by the aggressor himself, or any other substance :put in motion by him. Kirland v. The State (1873), 43 Ind. App. (sic) 146.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. State“`[o]ne's wearing apparel is so intimately connected with the person, as in law to be regarded, in case of a battery, as a part of the person.'”
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.