People v. Repke’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Shannon v. United States (1935), People v. Cornell (2002)
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Hamilton v. People · O'Brien v. Commonwealth · People v. Hall · State v. Turlington · Jones 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict, whether it be murder of the first or second degree; but if such person shall be convicted by confession, the court shall proceed by examination of witnesses to determine the degree of the crime, and shall render judgment accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Clark““But, as was said in the last case, ‘It is, no doubt, in their power to disregard evidence, and to acquit persons whom they know to be guilty.’ The court in the present case did recognize this power, and expressly told the jury that they could acquit, but, if they found the respondent guilty at all, it must be for murder in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Warren“no evidence warranting a different direction, and no circumstances which would lessen the degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Cornell
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.