State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Webber (1996), State v. Browning (1989)
32 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 Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · Bain Jr · M. Morrin & Son Co. v. Burgess Construction Co. · Gordon v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Premeditation (or its equivalent, the proof of a felony) is a necessary element in first-degree murder not required in proof of second-degree murder, but it is not incumbent upon the- State to disprove premeditation when there is a malicious killing and defendant has only been charged with second-degree murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Caldwell“'The federal courts continue to adhere to the historic rule that an indictment may not be amended. The reason is clear. An indictment is an action of the grand jury, and the prosecutor or court may not change the charge put forward by the grand jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Keys“[t]he purpose of an indictment, information or complaint is to advise the accused and the court of the charges alleged to have been committed and the essential facts constituting the crime or crimes charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Keys
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.