State v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1983
19 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · People v. Manriquez · People v. Miller · People v. Milton · People v. Dabner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death or be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life, and the jury may decide which punishment shall be inflicted. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Snowden““If there be any defect, it is one of form not substance, and certainly is one which would have to be raised by demurrer * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jennings
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.