Myrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably People v. Marcy (1981), Dunagan v. State (1998)
5 federal appellate · 39 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 Mann v. State · Gallery v. State · Green v. State · Hamilton v. State · Josey v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a trial for murder, if the accused has admitted a wilful and intentional killing without any negation of malice, a presumption of malice will ordinarily arise; but this is not the case, and no presumption of malice arises, where he adds an exculpatory explanation of justification, excuse, or mitigation.” Myrick v. State, 199 Ga. 244 (34 S. E. 2d, 36 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. West v. State“A wanton and reckless state of mind is sometimes the equivalent of a specific intent to kill, and such state of mind may be treated by the jury as amounting to such intention when the wilful and intentional performance of an act is productive of violence resulting in the destruction of human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bishop 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.