State v. . Gould’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1978
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bill charges that the wound was given with a rock, and the proof rather tended to show that it was given with a stick. It can make no difference whether the deceased was stick with a (898) rock or a stick; for it is held that where the instrument of death laid in the indictment and that proved are of the same nature and character, and the method of the operation is the same, though the instrument is different, there is no variance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Mincher
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.