State v. Millain’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Fouquette (1950), Lisby v. State (1966)
51 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 People v. Reynolds · State v. Phillips · People v. Enoch · People v. Mahoney · People v. Belencia
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are, indeed, but two questions for us to consider in connection with this indictment. First, does it conform substantially to our statutory form; and second, had the Legislature power to dispense with the formality of the common law indictment?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Randolph“Let us here, however, repeat the parent statute, being the Pennsylvania one of 1791.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.