State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably State v. Gerald (1988), Government of Virgin Islands v. Lake (1966)
12 federal appellate · 15 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 United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division · State v. DiPaolo · State v. Hipplewith · State v. Costa · State v. Walker
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) that the premeditation, which is the conception of the design or intent to kill, existed for more than a barely appreciable length of time before the killing; that is, it must have had something more than a momentary existence; “(b) deliberation which is a reconsideration of the design to kill, a weighing of the pros and cons with respect to it; and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brown“although the burden is upon the defendant to establish such a defense, the burden of proving the defendant guilty of murder, or any degree thereof, beyond a reasonable doubt, is always on the State, and that burden never shifts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant is entitled to the benefit of a reasonable doubt upon the whole case as it goes to the jury, including the issue of self-defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.