Marks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1998 · most notably Benton v. Maryland (1969), Simms v. State (1980)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Davis 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purposes of this appeal we shall assume, without deciding, that the verdicts were inconsistent. Apart from any matter of inconsistency, we find that [the] verdict finding the defendant guilty of ‘assault with intent to kill’ was an improper verdict on the charge of assault with intent to kill and murder____””
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.