State v. Streeton’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably State v. Benton (1970), State v. Davis (1982)
3 federal appellate · 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 Powers v. Commonwealth · State v. . Mays · State v. . Biggs · State v. . Bell · State v. . Smith
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing . . . shall be deemed to be murder in the first degree and shall be punished with death. All other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree, and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than two years nor more than life imprisonment in the State's prison." (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buchanan · State v. Hunt““It is evident that under this statute [G.S. 14-17] a homicide is murder in the first degree if it results from the commission or attempted commission of one of the four specified felonies or of any other felony inherently dangerous to life, without regard to whether the death be intended or not.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doss · State v. Swift““A murder . . . which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, kidnapping, bv/rglary or other felony, shall be deemed to be murder in the first degree and shall be punished. with death....” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons
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.