State v. . Brittain’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Cherry (1979), Rowe v. United States (1896)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our conclusions are equally applicable to the cause of J. W. Brittain as to that of his father, S. P. Brittain, for although a son may fight in the necessary defense of his father, yet in such cases the act of the son must have the same construction as the act of the father should have had if it had been done by himself; for they are in mutual relations to one another. S. v. Johnson , 75 N.C. 174 ; 1 Hale P. C., 484.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. S. v. . Greer“The principle of reasonable doubt has no application to the doctrine of mitigation. The rule in regard to that is, that the jury must be satisfied by the testimony that the matter offered in mitigation is true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark.
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.