State v. Gum’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1997
1 federal appellate · 10 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 64 W. Va. 625 - State v. Clark · Roberson v. State · Coleman v. State · People v. Denby · Montgomery v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an attempted arrest be unlawful, the party sought to be arrested may use such reasonable force, proportioned-to the injury attempted upon him, as is necessary to effect his escape, but no more; -and he cannot do this by using, or offering to use, a deadly weapon, if he has not reason to apprehend a greater injury than a mere unlawful arrest.””
2 later decisions 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.