State v. Averill’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2024
21 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 Powers v. State · Watson v. State · Commonwealth v. Holmes · State v. McDonnell · State v. Porter
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That both voluntary and involuntary manslaughter are included in the crime of murder, and a person indicted for murder may be convicted of murder or of either species of manslaughter, as the evidence may warrant, at common law, is held in the following cases in this country: Conner v. Commonwealth, 13 Bush (Ky.), 714 ; Buckner v. Commonwealth, 14 Bush (Ky.), 601 ; Bush v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky. 268 ; Powers v. State, 87 Ind. 144 ; Pigg v. State, 145 Ind. 560 ( 43 N. E. 309 ); Watson v. State, 116 Ga. 607 ( 43 S. E. 32 , 21 L. R. A. (N. S.), 1); Thomas v. State, 121 Ga. 331 ( 49 S. E. 273 ); In re Somers, 31 Nev. 531 ( 103 Pac. 1073 , 135 Am. St. Rep. 700 , 24 L. R. A. (N. S.), 504).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trent
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.