State v. Amazeen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2010
18 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 United States v. Brawner · State of Rhode Island v. Fenik · State v. Arpin · State v. Vanasse · State v. Hockenhull
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Murder. — The unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought is murder. Every murder perpetrated by * * * wilful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing * * * or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed is murder in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz“proof of the specific intent to kill or to cause great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. State
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.