State v. Toney’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2014
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In law, malice is a term of art importing wickedness and excluding a just cause or excuse. It is implied from an unlawful act wilfully done until the contrary be proved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act may be unlawful and so involve legal responsibility without being either wilful or malicious, or it may be both unlawful and wilful without being malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Clearly importing that such act may be wilful without being actually malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.