Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably James v. State (1976), Evans v. State (1973)
32 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 Glover v. State · Barker v. State · Brown v. State · Yarber v. State · Hardin 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that there may be such premeditated malice as will make a killing murder in the first degree the thought of taking life must have been consciously conceived in the mind, the conception must have been meditated upon, and a deliberate determination formed to do the act. Where the homicide has been preceded by a concurrence of will, with an intention to kill, and these are followed by deliberate thought or premeditation, although they follow as instantaneous as successive thoughts can follow each other, the perpetrator may be guilty of murder in the first degree.” Everett v. State, (1934) 208 Ind. 145, 149-150 , 195 N.E. 77, 79 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. State““There was sufficient evidence of purpose of this case. Appellant, without struggle, pointed a gun at an unarmed man’s chest and shot him. Appellant is assumed to have intended the natural and probable consequences of his act. ... We can think of no clearer example of what it means to ‘purposely’ shoot another person, than the facts in this case. Malice could properly have been inferred from the intentional use of a deadly weapon in a manner calculated to cause death.” Id. at 492-93 , 260 N. E. 2d at 789 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wardlaw 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.