Erby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1979
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bone v. State · Bly v. State · McClendon 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the jury disbelieved the defendant's plea of self-defense, as it had a right to do, the killing was without justification, and malice might well be implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope 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.