State v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Robert Leon Jenkins, a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, Roberta B. Jenkins v. F. W. Averett (1970), State v. Kirby (1970)
6 federal appellate · 78 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 State v. Greer · State v. . Jackson · State v. Cole · State v. Miller · State v. . Perry
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an actual intent to inflict injury, or (2) [commits a] culpabl[y] or criminal[ly] negligen[t] [act] from which such intent may be implied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any person whose operator’s or chauffeur’s license has been suspended or revoked other than permanently, as provided in this chap ter, who shall drive any motor vehicle upon the highways of the State while such license is suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 'and his license shall be suspended or revoked, as the case may be, for an additional period of one year for the first offense, two years for the second offense, and permanently for a third or subsequent offense; . . .” (Our italics)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sossamon“A motion in arrest of judgment is one made after verdict and to prevent entry of judgment, and is based upon the insufficiency of the indictment or some other fatal defect appearing on the face of the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirby
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.