Horton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Hornsby v. State (1891), 632 So. 2d 503 - Harris v. State (1992)
39 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 Sanford v. Howard · Davis v. State · Jones v. State · Scott v. Myatt · Johnson 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“apparent purpose of these several provisions [was] to obviate the necessity of a multiplicity of counts, permitting one count to serve the purposes accomplished by several at common law.... [At common law] the intent in burglary must have been averredthat is, the specific felony it was intended to commit, whether to steal, murder, or ravish. These could be averred in separate counts, but not disjunctively in the same count. The statutory provision would ... authorize the alternative averment... in an indictment for burglary, of the intent, in the alternative, to commit several felonies....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An apparent purpose of these several provisions [§ 15-8-50 , 51, 52] is to obviate the necessity of a multiplicity of counts, permitting one count to serve the purposes accomplished by several at common law. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where offenses are of the same character, and subject to the same punishment, the defendant may be charged with the commission of either in the same count in the alternative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.