State v. McComb’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Neusbaum v. State (1928), State v. Sisneros (1938)
2 district · 25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Shuford · Schultz v. State · State v. Goetz · Southern Cotton Press & Manufacturing Co. v. Bradley · People v. Adams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * when our statute provided that the negligence must be culpable or criminal — terms evidently used synonymously — it would seem that it meant to provide specifically that the unlawful act relied on in manslaughter, must, if it consists of negligence, be more than ordinary negligence, and must be culpable or criminal in its nature. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson““ * * * In civil cases the courts of this state define it as such negligence as evinces a reckless disregard of human life or bodily injury.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas 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.