State v. McCausland’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), 158 W. Va. 647 - State Ex Rel. Grob v. Blair (1975)
44 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 10 E.H. Smith 286 - People v. . Thorn · State v. Taylor · State v. Henry · 81 W. Va. 522 - State v. Snider · Thompson v. Douglass
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Evidence of the character of the deceased in this regard [for being a violent and dangerous man] at or about the time of the killing is, of course, pertinent, and was admitted by the court below, but how much stronger would this evidence be if it could be shown that this quarrelsome or violent disposition was not one which was only attributable to him for a short time, but that he possessed such traits of character for many, many years. The jury would get a very much better view of his real disposition in this regard if they were allowed to hear evidence of his character in this regard covering as much of his past life as was readily available. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This evidence did not in any way prove any issue involved in the case. The trouble between the accused and the deceased did not arise out of any matter with which his family was in any wise connected. The evidence was patently introduced for the sole purpose of creating sympathy in the minds of the jury for the widow and the orphan children, manifestly an improper purpose. This evidence should not have been admitted.”
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.