Duncan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2003
22 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“references to various localities and landmarks at or near the scene of the [crime], known by or probably familiar to the jury, from which, under the liberal rule laid down by the courts, they may have reasonably concluded that the offense was committed in [the alleged] county,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pennick 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.