Schlect v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1962
4 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 Keenan v. State · People v. Crowe
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are three ingredients of the offense, which, concurring, are supposed to distinguish this one from any other criminal homicide. They are: (1) Involuntary; (2) a weapon neither cruel nor unusual; and. (3) the heat of passion. . . . What is a cruel weapon we need not define. If a pistol is a cruel weapon, then any weapon that is most likely to take life, or commonly used to take life, is a cruel one, and all weapons are cruel. It must be some other than such a common weapon that can be distinguished as cruel. It is a usual weapon, or not unusual. This is evident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Knoll
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.