Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Enmund v. Florida (1982), State v. Vinson (1975)
128 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 People v. Lawrence · Pinder v. State · Savage v. State · Holland v. State · McCoy 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“correct reference to the law of the case that aid in determining whether challenges for cause or peremptory are proper . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A principal in the first degree and a principal in the second degree are both principals, and are punishable alike. The degrees are designed merely to indicate that one actually committed the felonious act, and that the other was present (actually or constructively) aiding and abetting the felonious act. Both are equally guilty; and it is not material which one is alleged to have actually committed the felonious act, (if) it is duly proven that one committed the act and that the other was present, and aided and abetted the alleged felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State · Wester v. State“obtain a fair and impartial jury, whose minds are free of all interest, bias, or prejudice.”
2 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.