Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Speer v. State (1917), Moore v. State (1957)
28 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 Allen v. State · Haskins 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be to put a man's whole life in issue on the charge of a single wrongful act; and crush him by irrelevant matter which he could not be prepared to meet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saul v. State
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.