State v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 851 - Galvan v. Superior Court (1969), United States v. Harrelson (1985)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Skidmore v. Commonwealth
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Any person who has previously pleaded guilty or been convicted of murder, voluntary manslaughter, assault to commit murder, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary or sexual assault in the first or second degree, or mayhem, unless pardoned, and who uses or has in his possession any firearm is guilty of a felony. “(b) Upon conviction, the offender shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five (5) years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Benson v. State“"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.