State v. Bey’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Dow v. State (1971), State v. Rowe (1968)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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. McKrackern · Rell v. State · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. City of Portland · State v. Bernatchez · State v. Sutkus
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““as an unlawful act of violent injury to the person of another, accompanied by circumstances of aggravation, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the infliction of serious bodily injury, the intent to commit a felony, great disparity between the ages and physical conditions of the parties, a difference in the sexes, indecent liberties or familiarities with a female, the purposeful infliction of shame and disgrace, resistence of lawful authority, or other aggravating circumstances.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davenport · State v. Smith““At common law there were, and are, no degrees of the offense of assault and battery. The term aggravated assault had, and has, no technical meaning. There was, and is, but one grade of the offense and the penalty varies according to the discretion of the court. * * * The offensive conduct may constitute a misdemeanor or a felony.” State v. Bey, 161 Me. 23,26 , 206 A.2d 413,415 . “The matter of the aggravation has to do only with the sentence and is a matter for the Court, whose duty it is to sentence.” State v. McKrackern, 141 Me. 194, 207, 208 , 41 A.2d 817, 822 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lemieux v. State
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.