State v. Bobbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1978 · most notably State v. Glover (1932), Dewein v. State (1914)
4 federal appellate · 27 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. Meyers · State v. Barrington · State v. Fairlamb · State v. Church · State v. Hopper
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every murder which shall be committed by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, and every homicide which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem, shall be deemed murder in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Glover“the homicide was committed in the course of the perpetration of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Glover
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.