State v. Roedl’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
6 federal appellate · 10 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 United States v. Kagama · Draper v. United States · Benson v. United States · United States v. McBratney · Commonwealth v. Madeiros
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[holding that] ... in a prosecution for involuntary manslaughter wherein several ... acts ... were alleged to have been committed resulting in death, the jury must unanimously agree on one or more of the specified unlawful acts and they may not combine their conclusions on different specified acts so as to converge on an ultimate verdict of guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term “wilfully,” when applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act or make the omission referred to. It does not require any intent to violate law or to injure another or to -acquire any advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary elements to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in proving the crime of involuntary manslaughter and the finding of a verdict of guilty by the jury”). In 1928, our law defined involuntary manslaughter as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hummel
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.