Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2005
17 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 Brown v. Ohio · Bowen v. Yuckert · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Elmore v. State · Collins 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plac[ed] [the] children in a tub and le[ft] them there while knowing that very hot water was supplied to the tub and that the children were able to, and many times did, turn the water faucets themselves.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the State only had to prove this pattern of neglect: 'no additional facts were necessary to prove the perpetration of either of the offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. State · Hall v. State““The applicable rule is that, where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall 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.