Witt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Gann v. State (1964), Clarke v. State (1966)
1 federal appellate · 31 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indictment would be good if it charged the offense according either to the common law, or the statute; but in this case it follows neither. It does not use the word “unlawfully”, and does not charge the killing to have been unlawful, unless by dubious inference.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * from the mere fact of killing, without more, the law presumes only murder in the second degree.”
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.