State v. Beatty’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1981
1 federal appellate · 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on First National Bank of Wellsburg v. Kimberlands · Shrewsbury v. Miller · Richardson v. Donehoo · State v. Cobbs · Griffith v. Corrothers
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not error for a court to omit to instruct a jury that it may punish murder in the first degree with either death or confinement in the penitentiary, unless asked to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“refuse to plead or answer, and do not confess his guilt,”
1 later decision 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.