State v. Copeman’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1972
18 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 Loomis v. . People · State v. Vickery · State v. Murphy
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instructions must be read together and this declaration against which the complaint is lodged follows the main instruction; in fact, it is but a part of it, and intended as explanatory of what must be found by the jury. First, the jury are told that they must find that defendant did certain acts before they will be . authorized in convicting him. Then follows the. declaration that the intent with which the acts were done ¡is a material fact which must be determined by the jury. The instructions, considered as a whole, do not assume the existence of . any material fact, but on-the contrary require the jury to find every essential element necessary to constitute the offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson
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.