State v. Nortin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably State v. Zobel (1965), State v. Daymus (1961)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 The Charles Morgan · State v. McKnight · Strickland v. State · State v. Bartmess · State v. Farnam
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Motive and intent may constitute a material element in a criminal charge. These are issues relative to mental condition as to which direct testimony is often impossible. It is rightly held ‘ * * * that an instruction on circumstantial evidence is not necessary where the circumstances in evidence are introduced only for the purpose of corroboration; or only to show motive; or where the only question to be determined by the jury is that of intent, or venue; í¡c *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller · Ball v. State“a verdict for a lower degree of homicide will not be set aside on the ground that the evidence does not make out that degree of the crime in terms as defined by the statute, when it would have supported a finding of a higher degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zobel“the act, procurement, or culpable negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zobel
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.