Lacefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably State v. Gillette (1985), Speer v. State (1917)
43 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proposition is incontrovertible that to sustain an indictment for an assault with intent to murder, the evidence must be such as to warrant a conviction for murder had death ensued from the assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lisenby v. State““In an indictment for an assault with intent to commit an offense, the same particularity is not necessary as is required in the indictment for the commission of the offense itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott 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.