State v. Gulke’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1991
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term culpable negligence as used in Section 12-2719, RCND 1943, defining manslaughter in the second degree as applied to the operation of a motor vehicle, implies a total lack of care which is properly described as being in a reckless and heedless manner with utter disregard for the lives and limbs of persons upon the highway.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tjaden · State v. Carmody“perpetrated without a design to effect death by a person while engaged in the commission of a misdemeanor; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tjaden
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.