Boyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1943
21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute murder at the common law, when it results from a personal assault upon the deceased, not made with an intent to kill, the assault must be of such a character as to necessarily endanger the life of the person assaulted. The assault must be made with such a weapon or instrument as might endanger the life of the party assailed, or, if not made ■with a dangerous weapon, it must be made in such a manner as to threaten great bodily harm, at least, to the party assaulted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scherr
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.