State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1970
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If you return a verdict of murder .in the first degree, the Court instructs you now, as it has already instructed you, that you may at the time of returning your verdict into open Court, recommend .that the prisoner's punishment be imprisonment for life, and in that event, the punishment will he imprisonment for life. You are instructed that titos iis a light that you have that is unbridled and tlh'at is without conditions, -restrictions, or limitations. You may return -one of three verdicts in the -ease. “1. Guilty of -murder in the first degree .ais -charged in the bill of indictment. “2. Guilty of murder in the first degree with -a recommendation that the punishment of the prisoner be life imprisonment. “3. Not guilty. depending upon how you, the jury, find the facts under the evidence and the Gourit’s instructions as to the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crawford
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.