Maulding v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Jones v. Commonwealth (1926), 135 W. Va. 106 - State v. Painter (1950)
63 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 Bast v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Abbott v. Commonwealth · Hunn v. Commonwealth · Westrup v. Commonwealth
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ On this issue the material inquiry in every case is whether or not the killing was done with * * * intent to kill, and not the manner by or through which it was done, or whether the implements used were deadly weapons or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.