State v. Mowser’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 1986 · most notably State v. Labato (1951), State v. Currie (1964)
55 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. Cooper · State v. Rosa · State v. Mowser
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for it is the character of the act, not the results which flow from it, which determines the question of the guilt or innocence of the person who does it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The amplification of the indictment, by the bill of particulars served upon the plaintiff in error, discloses that the murder of which he was accused was the result of the criminal act done in the perpetration of the robbery. The state, by its bill of particulars, assumed the obligation to establish the murder by proving that it was the result of the act of the accused in the perpetration of the robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Applying to the facts of the present case the test which is to be extracted from State v. Cooper and State v. Rosa , the inquiry presented is: Did the robbery and murder grow out of the same transaction? The state by its bill of particulars states that they did, and, the plaintiff in error having pleaded guilty to the robbery, the prosecution on the indictment for murder is barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.