Jenkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1988
23 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 Mitchell v. State · Ex parte Nettles · McManus v. State · Carney v. State · Judge 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The charge asked by defendant was rightly refused. Under the testimony most favorable to him, the defendant commenced the encounter, by attempting to snatch the hat of deceased from his head in a rude or angry manner. This was an assault a misdemeanor; and if death ensued, although by misadventure, and not likely to ensue, the defendant would not be guiltless. He would ordinarily be guilty of manslaughter in the second degree, under the circumstances as detailed by himself. [citations omitted] The hypothesis of the charge, while, if believed, it may have required defendant's acquittal of murder, did not, when interpreted in connection with the testimony, demand his entire acquittal.”
1 later decision 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.