State v. Hilsinger’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), 42 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Emmanuel (1953)
28 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 Brown v. United States · State v. Cushing · State v. Much · State v. Rader · State v. Doon
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In instructing a jury as to the statutory definition of the crime with which a defendant stands charged, all of the pertinent elements contained in the statute should be set forth.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Murder in any form is the felonious killing of a human being. It is a killing without justification or excuse, yet all reference to this element is omitted by the court in its definition of murder in the first and second degrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Borrero“committed reversible error in leaving out of its instruction defining murder in the second degree the elements of excuse or justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Borrero
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.