State v. Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. Bly (1974), State v. Clements (1987)
40 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 Nash v. Minnesota Title Insurance & Trust Co. · Seymour v. . Wilson · Commonwealth v. Woodward · State v. McGaffin · State v. O'Neil
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When character is in issue, the law limits the inquiry to general character, and not to specific acts; not the estimate of a few, nor the opinion of a part of the community; but it can be shown only by common report, general reputation and opinion generally entertained of the party in the community where he lives.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the information does not in so many words allege that the wounds were inflicted by the shooting, or that they were mortal and resulted in. death, it does allege distinctly that Foley was killed and murdered by the defendant at a fixed place and upon a certain time, by means that are described, and in language that can leave no doubt as to the character of the wounds inflicted or the cause of the death. We think the information contains the essential averments of a charge of murder.” (State v. Kirby, 62 Kan. 436, 440 , 63 Pac. 752 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Baker
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.