Faulcon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), Newton v. State (1977)
61 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 Chisley v. State · Grammer v. State · Davis v. State · Berry v. State · Hughes 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing shall be murder in the first degree.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Hochheimer . . . defines ‘wilful’ as follows: ‘there must be a specific purpose and design to kill; ’ ‘deliberate’ is defined: ‘there must be full and conscious knowledge of the purpose to do so; ’ and, ‘premeditated’ as: ‘the design must have preceded the killing by an appreciable length of time, time enough to be deliberate. In order to justify a conviction of murder in the first degree, as thus defined, the jury must find the actual intent, the fully formed purpose to kill, with so much time for deliberation and premeditation as to convince them, that this purpose is not the immediate offspring of rashness and impetuous temper and that the mind has become fully conscious of its own design. ’ ” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"For a homicide to be 'wilful’ there must be a specific purpose and design to kill. To be 'deliberate’ there must be a full and conscious knowledge of the purpose to kill. To be 'premeditated’ the design to kill must have preceded the killing by an appreciable length of time; that is, time enough to be deliberate. To justify a conviction of murder in the first degree the jury or court, sitting without a jury, must find the actual intent, the fully formed purpose to kill, with enough time for deliberation and premeditation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson 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.