Warren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Blackburn v. State (1973), Hill v. State (1969)
72 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 Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Flowers v. State · Barker v. State · Boyle v. State · Henning 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whoever, purposely and maliciously, but without premeditation, kills any human being, is guilty of murder in the second degree, and, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the state prison during life."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Adkins v. State · Baker v. State“"In determining the effect of irresistible impulse it is the settled law of this state that a person may have sufficient mental capacity to know right from wrong and be able to understand the nature and consequences of his act and yet not be responsible for his actions, if his will power is so impaired by a diseased mind that he cannot resist an impulse to commit the criminal act. In other words, if the lack of will power is the result of a diseased state of mind, there is mental unsoundness in the eyes of the law; but if the will is simply overborne by ungoverned passion, there may be criminal responsibility."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. State · Hill v. State““. . . (A) peremptory instruction of acquittal in a criminal case is only proper where there is a total absence of probative evidence upon some essential issue, or where there is no conflict in the evidence and it is susceptible of but one inference which is in favor of the accused. Here the determination of the issue involved the weight of the evidence on the credibility of witnesses and it would have been an invasion of the province of the fury for the court to direct a verdict” (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nichols 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.