State v. Branton’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1949
11 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 State v. Steeves · State v. Moran · State v. O'Brien · State v. Kirk
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where more than one join in the commission of an offense which is not necessarily several, all or any number of them may be jointly or separately indicted therefor: Wharton’s Cr. Pl. (8 ed.), §301; Bishop’s New Cr. Proc., §483; State v. O’Brien, 18 R. I. 105 ( 25 Atl. 910 ). ‘We take the general rule to be,’ say the court in Commonwealth v. Griffin, 3 Cush. 523 , ‘that in every indictment against two or more the charge is several as well as joint, — in effect, that each is guilty of the offense charged; so that, if one is found guilty, judgment may be passed on him, although one or more may be acquitted.’ To the same effect see, also, Commonwealth v. Brown, 12 Gray, 135 . So, too, a joint indictment against all who participate in the commission of a crime is, in effect, a several indictment against each: State v. O’Brien, 18 R. I. 105 ( 25 Atl. 105 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Casey
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.