State v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1983
16 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. Lee · State v. Chevlin · State v. Spradlin · State v. Layton · State v. Gillespie
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Malice aforethought means malice with premeditation; that is, that the unlawful act intentionally done was determined upon before it was executed.' State v. Tettaton, 159 Mo. 354 , loc. cit. 365, 60 S.W. 743, 746 . `Malice aforethought means that the act was done with malice and premeditation.' State v. Thomas, 78 Mo. 327 , loc. cit. 339.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.