Tarvers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1998
1 federal appellate · 16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * jf acf done was an unlawful act, and the doing of it was directly perilous to human life, and so known to the wrong-doer, that then there is implied such a high degree of conscious and willful recklessness as to amount to that malignity of heart constituting malice. The result may not have been intended, yet the deliberate and conscious doing of an act, the .probable consequence of which was death, amounts to murder at common law. This is the doctrine of Lee v. State, [ 41 Tenn. 62 , 66], and it is fully supported by the common law authorities.” (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State
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.