Jennings v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Gray v. State (1970), Des Jardins v. State (1976)
29 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 Curley v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co. · Weldon v. United States · House v. State · James v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he judge must take the view of the evidence and the inferences therefrom most favorable to the state. If the court determines that fair-minded men in the exercise of reasonable judgment could differ on the question of whether guilt has been established beyond a reasonable doubt, then the case must be submitted to the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. State · Allen v. State“Conviction of Lesser Offense. The defendant may be found guilty of an offense necessarily included in the offense charged, or of an attempt to commit either the offense charged or the offense necessarily included therein if the attempt is an offense. When it appears that the defendant has committed a crime, and there is reasonable ground of doubt in which of two or more degrees he is guilty, he can be convicted of the lowest of those degrees only.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rivett v. State · Mill v. State“The gravamen of involuntary manslaughter, as so defined, is a homicide which.is unlawful — one that is not excusable under the law. Second degree murder is also a homicide which is unlawful — one that is not excusable under the law. It is true that second degree murder requires malice and a specific intent to kill, whereas involuntary manslaughter does not. But tins difference relates only to the state of mind, of the accused and hears upon the degree of punishment. The gravamen of the two offenses, an unlawful killing, is the same. 404 P.2d at 655 (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.