Bird v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Walczak v. State (1985), Ford v. State (1993)
76 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 Webb v. State · Marks v. State · Cooper v. State · 76 Cal. App. 2d 648 - In Re Scarborough · Hall 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crime of assault with intent to murder is a statutory offense. See Code (1957), Art. 27, § 12. And although the statutory provision does not define the elements of the crime, it is necessary that there be proof of an assault and that it was with an intent to murder____ Intent involves the element of malice and must be such as would lead to a charge of murder if death should ensue.... The specific intent to take life need not be shown if the assault was committed under such circumstances that, if death had ensued, the crime would have been murder in either the first or second degree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an action has been tried without a jury, the appellate court ... will give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses”). Our analysis of the court's credibility determination necessarily concedes demeanor-driven factors and considers only the content of the testimony. 27 . Petitioner explained:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rawlings v. Rawlings“is not whether we might have reached a different conclusion from that of the trial court, but whether the trial court had before it sufficient evidence upon which it could fairly be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt of the offense charged....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon 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.