State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2014
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Did you, in jail, tell Mr. Ward that you knew nothing about the murder of old man James, that young Joe James never spoke to you about killing his father, and that all you had said about his hiring you to do it was false, and you said it because you were afraid, that the sheriff had threatened you, and drawn his pistol on you, or words to that effect?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrison v. State“No, sir. He asked me did the sheriff draw a pistol on me, and I told him `No.' He asked me did Sheriff Cole draw a pistol on me, and I told him `No, sir'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrison 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.