State v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Burns v. Clayton (1960), Welty v. State (1912)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile the law does presume malice ... yet, when the facts attending the homicide are brought out, there is no room for the presumption, and the state must prove the malice from the facts and circumstances attending the homicide, without any aid from the artificial presumption. Of course, this, like all other facts, must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and not merely by the preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smart v. Leeke“admits an intentional killing, and sets up as justification a necessity to kill in order to save the accused from death or serious bodily harm, whereas a defense of homicide by accident denies that the killing was intentional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Owens
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.