Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Motley v. State (1945), 476 So. 2d 1262 - Linehan v. State (1985)
103 state decisions — followed in 13 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ If there is the slightest evidence tending to prove a hostile demonstration which may be reasonably regarded as placing the accused apparently, in imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining great bodily harm, the threats should not be excluded.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rhone · Burgen v. State“which the law has placed entirely within the discretion of a majority of them [the jury].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnette 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.