People v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2012
1 federal appellate · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The mere proof of the murder itself, without other proof deduced from the manner of the killing, or from other evidence tending to establish the design to take the life of the victim, would' not establish the higher degree of the crime, but would only authorize a verdict of murder in the second degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Wolf“Murder is where a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully kills any reasonable creature in being, in the peace of the state, with malice prepense or aforethought, either express or implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Mendoza
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.