State v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2000
2 district · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts have said that to be punished as a crime the negligence must be culpable or gross, or that the conduct of the accused person must have been such as to evidence a conscious indifference to consequences, or to show a z'eckless disregard for the life and safety of others, or to be izicompatible with human life and safety. These expressions, when examined, mean only that to be punished criminally, the cozrduct of the accused person must have been such as was likely to cause great bodily harm or death to another reasonably within its range. * * * “Mere ziegligent driving, without znore, is not punished criminally; but where the conduct of the driver is such as to evidence a reckless disregard for the life and safety of others, it is such negligence as is subject to criminal prosecution and punishment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Biddle · State v. Biddle
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.