Croom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1953
15 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 Bradley v. State · Edmonds v. State · Coleman 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The least removal of the hog by the defendant after he shot and killed it would be an asportavit in law, and if the jury believed from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant shot and killed the hog and then took hold of it and cut its throat, that would constitute a taking and carrying away in the eyes of the law,”
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.