State v. Hofer’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), State v. Gramenz (1964)
37 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 Wilson v. United States · Ford v. United States · People v. Suesser · Commonwealth v. Parker · People v. Northcott
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]alice aforethought is a fixed purpose or design to do some physical harm to another existing prior to the act complained of; it need not be shown to have existed for any length of time before ... it is sufficient if such purpose was formed before and continued to exist at the time of the injury ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeves · State v. Lee“'wilful’ means the act was the result of the conscious will of the perpetrator, was of purpose, intentional and not accidental.” Id. at 483. The Hofer court also approved an instruction on “deliberateness” which read, “the act was the result of a purpose formed after weighing the considerations for and against the doing of the act.” Id. Finally, the Hofer court approved the following instruction on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]or a killing done with malice aforethought to be willful, deliberate and premeditated does not mean the killing must have been conceived or intended for any particular length of time before the act is done; the will or purpose to do it, the deliberation and premeditation, and the killing may follow each other as rapidly as successive impulses of thought of the human mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.