Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State (1983), McGarrh v. State (1963)
26 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Smith v. State · Carter v. State · Johnson 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The chief distinction between murder and manslaughter is the presence of deliberation and malice in murder and its absence in manslaughter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court instructs the jury that murder is the killing of a human being with malice aforethought, not in necessary self-defense, and without the authority of law, by any means or any manner, when done with the premeditated and deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed. The Court further instructs you that if you believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Earl Mallett on or about December 12, 1987 killed Bob Powell Burnley, a human being, without authority of law, either: (a) with the premeditated and deliberate design to effect the death of Bob Powell Burnley with malice aforethought; or (b) done in the commission of an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of Bob Powell Burnley, and not in necessary self-defense, then Earl Mallett is guilty of murder, and it is your sworn duty to so find.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.