State v. Markel’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1965
12 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. Shawley · Parker v. State · State v. Grant · State v. Stallings · State v. Studebaker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court instructs the jury that the defense in this case is that if the defendant did shoot the deceased that such shooting was an accident, and you are instructed that the defendant is not required to prove that it was an accident, but the burden of proof is upon the state to show that it was not an accident but that the said shooting was intentionally done by the defendant with the intention of shooting the deceased or some other person, and that the state must make this proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and unless the state has so made this proof, then you should acquit the defendant of both murder in the second degree and manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Loston
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.