Jenkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1982
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Is your mind in such a state that you would or could give the evidence of an Ethiopian or descendant of the African race the same weight that you would that of a Caucasian or descendant of the white race, in rendering a verdict upon this case?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoffman
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.