Bosnick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Parker v. State (1979), Dixon v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 State v. Lord · Clark v. State · People v. Lytton · Rayburn v. State · State v. Hall
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An Act modifying the Penal Code, to correspond with the establishment of a Penitentiary. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison or by lying in wait, or by any other means of wilfull, deliberate, malicious, and premediated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or larceny, shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree; and the jury shall in all cases of murder, on conviction of the accused, find by their verdict, whether he be guilty of murder in the first or second degree; but if the accused confess his guilt, the court shall impannel and examine testimony, and the degree of crime shall be found by such jury. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person convicted of murder in the first degree, or as accessory before the fact to such murder, shall suffer death by hanging by the neck; and every person convicted of murder in the second degree, shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in the public jail and penitentiary house, for a period not less than five years nor more than twenty-one years. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That whoever shall be convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, shall undergo imprisonment in said jail and penitentiary house, for a period of not less than two nor more than seven years; and every person ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. State“[T]he jury could have attributed to the elder Bosnick a full share of responsibility for what took place inside the Gatteys store, even though the original plan did not contemplate a homicide. Henry v. State, 151 Ark. 620 , 237 S.W. 454 (1922). But the jury was not required to do so. By the decided weight of authority, and by what we regard as the better rule, the jury may assign degrees of guilt among the conspirators in accordance with their respective culpability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lisenby 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.