State v. Lay’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1937
5 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 McLaughlin v. State · Adams v. State · Bruner v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An indictment for voluntary manslaughter will not support a conviction for involuntary manslaughter and vice versa. . . . Though the penalty is the same in both, the crimes of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter are as separate and distinct as those of grand larceny and robbery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill 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.