State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2006
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The weight of modern authority is undoubted to the effect that all the elements constituting the corpus delicti may be proven by circumstantial evidence. The corpus delicti in a case of murder consists of two elements, the death of a human being, and the criminal act of another in causing that death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brown
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.