Bechtelheimer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1922
10 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 Cordell v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This construction is adopted, not so much from the language employed, considered by itself, as from the results that would flow from a different construction. Ifno purpose to kill is necessary to constitute murder, whei’e the killing is brought about by administering poison, then the most innocent act of one’s life may turn out to be a murder, and that too in the first degree, subjecting him to the gallows or imprisonment for life. If a purpose to kill is not necessary, then the man is a murderer, who innocently administers what he supposes to be a proper dose of medicine, hut which turns out to be a poison which kills the party taking it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moynihan 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.