State v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2013
23 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · Godfrey v. Georgia · First National Bank v. United States · Marquez v. Texas · Youngberg v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Criminal homicide. — (a) Criminal homicide is the unlawful killing of another person which may be first degree murder, second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide or vehicular homicide. (b) The following definitions apply in this part: (1) “Deliberate act” means one performed with a cool purpose; and (2) “Premeditated act” means one done after the exercise of reflection and judgment. Premeditation may include instances of homicide committed by poison or by lying in wait. Premeditation may be inferred if the person killed is a child less than thirteen (13) years of age and the child’s death is the proximate result of a protracted pattern or multiple incidents of the infliction of serious bodily injury on the child by the defendant. 2”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dorantes · State v. Bordis
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.