Craft v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State v. Rice (1997), State v. Doyle (1968)
36 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another assignment of error is that the court neglected to inform the jury what constituted murder in the second degree.and the four degrees of manslaughter. The statute provides that the 'court in charging the jury ‘must state to them all matters of law which are necessary for their information in giving their verdict.’ “It also provides, in substance, that upon a charge of murder in the first degree the defendant may be convicted of any offense necessarily included therein, which would embrace murder in the second degree and the various degrees of manslaughter. Now, inasmuch as it is very manifest that murder in the second degree and all the grades of manslaughter are necessarily included in the charge of murder in the first degree, it was the imperative duty of the court, made so by the statute, to explain all of them to the jury. As the provision is plainly imperative, there is no necessity for attempting to sustain it by reason. It was error to omit to do so.” (Page 485.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Winters““Every murder which shall be committed purposely and maliciously, but without deliberation and premeditation, shall be deemed murder in the second degree.” (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 1992.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keleher
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.