State v. Vigil’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Sutphin (1988), State v. Garcia (1992)
1 federal appellate · 87 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 State v. Romero · Mascarenas v. State · State v. Ulibarri · State v. Orfanakis · State v. Slade
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Murder is the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought, either express or implied, by any of the means with which death may be caused. A. Murder in the fist degree consists of all murder perpetrated by any kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing. B. Murder in the second degree consists of all other murder perpetrated with an intent to kill or to do great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamilton
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.