Howell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1925
most recently cited
5 state decisions
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or any willful, deliberate or premeditated killing, or in the commission of or attempt to commit arson, rape, robbery or burglary, is murder of the first degree. All other murder is murder of the second degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.