State v. Birbiglia’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 1987 · most notably Commonwealth v. Moran (1982), Commonwealth v. Sinnott (1987)
56 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 State v. Griggsby · State v. Hogan · State v. Bessa · State v. Johnson · State v. McLaughlin
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘quorum,’ as used in section 3 of Act 98 of 1880, and as used with regard to all deliberative assemblies, means the number of members whose presence is required for transacting business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There shall be no crime known under the name of murder in the second degree; but on trials for murder the jury may find the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Braxton““Under these circumstances, the judge did not commit an error in overruling the motion for a severance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wittmers
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.