Speidel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Dawkins v. State (1988), RLR v. State (1971)
57 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Morissette v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Yates v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ot only the doing of some act by the person to be held liable, but also the existence of a guilty mind during the commission of the act. Although an act may have been objectively wrongful, the mind and will of the doer of the act may have been innocent. In such a case the person cannot be punished for a crime, unless it is one such as the ‘public welfare’ type of offense, which we have discussed, where the penalties are relatively small and the conviction does no great damage to an offender’s reputation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State · Reynolds v. State“The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alex v. State · Kimoktoak v. State“‘[CJaused primarily by the industrial revolution, out of which grew the necessity of imposing more stringent duties on those connected with particular industries, trades, properties, or activities that affect public health, safety, or welfare.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.