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Childs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1892

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
April 1982
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1982

11 state decisions

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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 Gibson v. State · Bales v. State · State v. Pitts · Arp v. State · Colt v. Eves

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The record of the pleadings and judgment entry in the case affirmatively shows that the defendant was tried and convicted, as charged in the indictment, without having pleaded to the indictment, and affirmatively shows that the plea of ‘not guilty’ was not entered by the court for him, and that thei'e was no issue joined.” (Italics ours.)”
    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.