State v. Mulhall’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Ford v. State (1993), State v. Gillette (1985)
42 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 State v. Gilmore · Lacefield v. State · State v. Clark · State v. Payton · State v. Pollard
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who shall, on purpose and of malice aforethought, shoot at or stab another, or assault or beat another with a deadly weapon, or by any other means or force likely to produce death or great bodily harm, with intent to kill, maim, ravish, or rob such person ... shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years,” The trial court gave the following instruction to the jury:”
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.