Cutter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005
20 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. Whaley · Commonwealth v. Shed
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In morals it is an evil mind which makes the offence, and this, as a general rule, has been at the root of criminal law. The consequence is that it is not to be intended that this principle is discarded, merely on account of the generality of statutory language. It is highly reasonable to presume that the law makers did not intend to disgrace or to punish a person who should do an act under the belief that it was lawful to do it. And it is this presumption that fully justifies the statement of Mr. Bishop, ‘that a statute will not generally make an act criminal, however broad may be its language, unless the offender’s intent concurred with his act.’ 1 Crim. Law, § 80.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was not conscious of doing anything wrong”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Savoie
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.