State v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Davis v. United States (1895), Pointer v. United States (1894)
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 38 states
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 James Carver v. James Jackson · Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire · Clapp v. . Fullerton · Pierce v. State · Potts v. House
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * When disease is the propelling, uncontrollable power, the man is as innocent as the weapon, — the mental and moral elements are as guiltless as the material. If his mental, moral, and bodily strength is subjugated and pressed to an involuntary service, it is immaterial whether it is done by his disease, or by another man, or a brute or any physical force of art or nature set in operation without fault on his part. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * `that whether there is such a mental disease as dipsomania, and whether the defendant had that disease, and whether the killing of Brown was the product of such disease, were questions of fact for the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The whole difficulty is, that courts have undertaken to declare that to be law which is a matter of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.