State v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably 163 W. Va. 40 - State v. Burton (1979), 140 W. Va. 444 - State v. Pietranton (1954)
29 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 Commonwealth v. Costley · State v. Cain · State v. Greer · Johnson v. Brown · State v. Harrison
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a homicide is proved, the presumption in this State is that it is murder of the second degree, and the burden is on the State of showing, if she can, that it was murder of the first degree; and upon the accused, of showing, if he can, that it was without malice, and therefore only manslaughter, or that he acted lawfully, and is therefore not guilty. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Graham
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.