State v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1974
8 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 Craft v. State · State v. Winters · State v. Patterson · State v. Clark · State v. Buffington
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the evidence shows beyond question that a defendant is either guilty of murder in the first degree or innocent, it is unnecessary upon the general charge of murder in the first degree to instruct the jury upon any other degree.” (p. .745.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen““A request for instructions upon the lesser degrees, which the court by this instruction held not applicable, would only direct attention again to a matter considered and acted upon. There was no ambush.” (p. 752.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ryan
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.