Bailey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1980
10 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 Davis 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To make out the charge it was necessary not only to show the assault, but the intent also, as charged in the indictment; the intent being the very gist of the offense. The evidence shows most clearly that the defendant could have shot Farnell if he so desired, but, as he did not shoot, this is the best evidence that he did not intend to do so. * * * A man's intentions are arrived at from his conduct, his action, and applying this rule to the defendant, and judging him by his actions, when he had an opportunity to shoot Farnell and did not do so, the conclusion is that he did not intend to murder him."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albright 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.