Jacobs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 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 Davis v. People · Burroughs v. State · Jackson v. State · Penrod v. People · McFarland 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here was no proof that she was known by the surname of ‘Nelson,’ as alleged in the indictment. The name of the person assaulted, as alleged in the indictment, was an essential element in the legal description of the offense, and the failure to prove it as laid is fatal to the conviction had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holborough 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.