State v. Horne’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Booth (2001), Vo v. Superior Court (1992)
4 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · Fowler v. Woodward · State v. MOUZON · State v. Brooks · State v. Heyward
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact this particular issue has not been raised or ruled on before does not mean we are prevented from declaring the common law as it should be.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If * there was malice in [the actor's] heart ... it matters not whether he killed his intended victim or a third person through mistake.... [T]he actor's intent to kill his intended victim is said to be transferred to his actual victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young“The Court has the right and the duty to develop the common law of South Carolina to better serve an ever-changing society,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simms
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.