State v. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Ex Parte Granviel (1978), Huebner v. State (1967)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Kemmler · Kidd v. Pearson · O'Neil v. State of Vermont
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In short, the text writers and cases say that the clause is aimed at those ancient punishments, those horrible, inhuman, barbarous inflictions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Feilen
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.