Pinder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Rosales-Lopez v. United States (1981), Aldridge v. United States (1931)
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is necessary that the defendant should have perpetrated the act under the well grounded belief, justified by the surroundings, that it was necessary to take the life of the person slain in order to save his own life, or to prevent great bodily harm to himself at the time he fired the fatal shot.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. State“Could you give the defendant, who is a negro, as fair and as impartial a trial as you could a white man, and give him the same advantage and protection as you would a white man upon the same evidence?”
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.