State v. Comfort’s Empirical Analysis
1838
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1908
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.
““ Every person who shall, on purpose and of malice aforethought, shoot at or stab another, or assault or boat another with a deadly weapon, or by any other means or force likely to produce death, or great bodily harm, with intent to kill, maim, ravish or rob such person, or in the attempt to commit any burglary or other felony, or in resisting the execution of legal process, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harris
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.