State v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1949
6 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.
“Homicide is murder, unless it be attended with extenuating circumstances, which must appear to the satisfaction of the jury; and if the jury are left in doubt on this point, it is still murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Jones“provocation be slight and it can be collected from the weapon used or any other circumstances that the prisoner intended to kill or do great bodily harm, and death follows, it is murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . White
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.