Batts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1973
10 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 Lewis v. State · Ferguson v. State · Waddle v. State · Crawford v. State · In re Richards
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now the effect of the Act of 1919 was to require the jury to fix the punishment —in other words, where the jury found a defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, they alone must say if he “shall suffer death by electrocution, or be imprisoned for life or over twenty years.” Code section [39-2405]. [In accordance with Code Section 39-2406], Following the verdict of the jury, the trial judge must enter a judgment in strict compliance with the jury’s verdict. 189 Tenn. at 36-37 , 222 S.W.2d at 192-193 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White 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.