Fine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably 49 So. 2d 332 - Cornelius v. State (1950), Groover v. State (1921)
57 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 Garner v. State · Pinder v. State · State v. Brown · Jackson v. State · Cook 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon the trial of an indictment for murder where the defense is self-defense, the character of the deceased as to peace and quiet frequently becomes a material subject for investigation. If the evidence, as in this case, is conflicting upon the question as to who began the difficulty, or whether the deceased's conduct or actions just prior to the encounter reasonably justified the belief that he was about to make an assault upon the accused, evidence as to the general reputation of the deceased for peace and quiet may lead the jury to a correct conclusion as to the guilt of the accused, by enabling them to determine who really began the difficulty, and the reasonableness of the defendant's belief as to imminent danger to himself of great bodily harm or death from the deceased."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court did not instruct the jury as to the definition of murder in the third degree, which, under the facts in this case, was not necessary. The definitions of murder in the first and second degree and manslaughter were given, and the forms of such verdicts were embodied in the instructions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ 'Character’ is distinct from ‘reputation,’ the latter being merely evidence of the former; but reputation is merely what is reported or understood from report to be the community’s estimate of the person’s character.””
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.