Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), Gautney v. State (1969)
50 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 Mitchell v. State · Gassenheimer v. State · Ala. Great Southern R. R. v. Hill · Fonville v. State · McManus 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not controverted that the defendant intentionally threw, or ‘pitched,’ the brick which produced death, at the deceased. Whether he intended to kill deceased or not, that result is chargeable to his- voluntary act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.