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Casey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1924

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
March 1969
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably State v. Martin (1952), Eckles v. State (1938)

37 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 Pope 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““We interpret Section 5038, Revised General Statutes of 1920, supra, to mean that when a defendant is arraigned and pleads guilty to a charge of murder, it becomes the duty of the trial court to take and examine the evidence affecting ■the charge against him, determine the degree of the homicide and pass sentence accordingly. The judge in other words under such circumstances is placed in the position of a jury and must determine from the evidence whether the defendant is guilty of murder in the first, second or third degree, or manslaughter and may in any case, consider the question of whether or not his judgment should be tempered with mercy.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ex Parte Barnes
  2. ““When the jury find the defendant guilty under an indictment for murder, they shall ascertain by their verdict the degree of unlawful homicide of which he is guilty, but if the defendant on arraignment confesses his guilt, the court shall proceed to determine the degree upon an examination of the testimony and pass sentence accordingly.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ex Parte Barnes

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.