Schroer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
16 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 Bumpus v. State · Buford v. State · Watts v. State · Conner v. State · Houston 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The unlawful act or omission of accused need not be the sole cause of death. The test of responsibility is whether the act of accused contributed to the death, and, if it did, he is not relieved of responsibility by the fact that other causes also contributed. Moreover, responsibility also attaches where the injury materially accelerates the death, although the death is proximately occasioned by a preexisting cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The consequences of an act, which is the efficient cause of the death of anoth er, are not excused by the preexisting physical condition of the person killed or by his low vitality, which rendered him unable to withstand the shock of the wound or blows inflicted. This may be so even though without the predisposed condition the blow would not have been fatal, provided that a causal connection between the blow and the fact of death is shown.””
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.