Comber v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Wilson-Bey v. United States (2006), State v. Yarborough (1996)
91 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1112
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Keeble v. United States · 35 Cal. 3d 824 - People v. Burroughs · Bishop v. United States · Commonwealth v. Matchett
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a wanton and willful disregard of an unreasonable human risk as to constitute malice aforethought even if there is not actual intent to kill or injure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] homicide constitutes voluntary manslaughter where the perpetrator kills with a state of mind which, but for the presence of mitigating circumstances, would render the killing murder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he absence of justification, excuse, or mitigation is thus an essential component of malice, and in turn of second degree murder, on which the government bears the ultimate burden of persuasion.”
3 later decisions 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.