Marshall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2000
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant determined in his heart to murder the woman. He- then sent to learn if her husband was away from home, so as to be sure the coast was clear. He then went and got his razor, telling the purpose for which he got it, and to nerve himself for his desperate deed, drank the whiskey referred to, before going to the house of the defenseless woman and cutting her throat in bed. The man who determines to commit, a crime, and then to nerve himself fills himself with whiskey is none the less guilty because he makes himself drunk in order to commit the crime.””
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.