Nutt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1974 · most notably Tidwell v. State (1881), Lewis v. State (1892)
27 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 Mitchell v. State · Bell & Murray v. State · Judge v. State · Page v. State · Sayres 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Murder in the second degree may be committed without an intention to take life. Mere words, no matter how insulting, never reduce a homicide to manslaughter. So, if one strike another, not in self-defense, with intent to maim him, and death ensue, or, if one, in the attempt to commit a felony, kill another without intending it — in either case, he is guilty of murder in the second degree.””
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.