Toler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1983
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `wilfully' is omitted in the accusatory part of the indictment but, as to the mode of committing the offense, it is charged that the defendant wilfully... shot and wounded [the victim] with the intent to take his life; and to say that the offense is not stated with such certainty as to apprise the defendant of what he stands charged would be extremely technical and nullify a conviction warranted by both the indictment and the proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phelps v. State
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.