Colson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1998
7 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
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He was no doubt "well soused" but it is an old saw that "some are keener drunk than others are sober." Whether or not defendant had enough left to know what he was doing was a question for the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“he was so drunk at the time he did not know what he was doing and, being so, the necessary element of `knowingly and willfully' resisting the sheriff in the performance of his duty was not present.”
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.