State v. Yarborough’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2008
14 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 Maher v. People · Felix v. State · Ferguson v. State · Ex parte Moore · Johnson v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The great weight of authority, however, is that the question as to whether a reasonable time had elapsed for the passions to cool and reason to resume its control, is one of fact for the jury. . . . “It must be borne in mind that the criminal law holds sane men responsible for the ordinary exercise of their reason; and that, although indulging to a certain extent mere infirmities of human nature, nevertheless it requires the exercise of control or mastery over one’s passion. Hence it is said that ‘the time in which an ordinary man, under or in like circumstances, would have cooled, is a reasonable time.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gounagias
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.