Mill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2020
16 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Bell v. United States · Ladner v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wle view [such] events as a series of acts, in a short and continuous sequence, which amount to a unitary criminal episode.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Miller v. State“[iJn marginal cases[,]) doubts should be resolved against turning a single transaction into multiple offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In his treatise on criminal law, Perkins notes that both “purpose” and “knowledge” as used in the revision of the Model Penal Code can constitute intent. “Intent includes those consequences which (a) represent the very purpose for which an act is done (regardless of likelihood of occurrence), or (b) are known to be substantially certain to result (regardless of desire).” R. Perkins, Criminal Law at p. 747 (1969). Thus it appears clear that the Model Penal Code provision dealing with assault with a deadly weapon does require the specific intent to do bodily injury-”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abruska 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.