State v. Kephart’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1992
22 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 Bassett v. United States · State v. Kniffen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have not discussed cases in this opinion. The rule we adhere to is sustained by an overwhelming weight of authority. They may be found in the encyclopaedias, digests, and text-books. The necessity of the rule is familiar to every practitioner, and there are few judges who will require any authority or argument to persuade them of the wisdom of the common law rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . If there is any reason for the rule except in the case of personal violence, it must exist in all cases; for the reason underlying it rests, not upon the character of the case, but upon the relation of the parties. ...” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“crime committed by one [spouse] against the other”
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.