State v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2020
9 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 Evans v. United States · Potter v. United States · Spurr v. United States · Felton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Gabor
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These words, “wilful” and “wilfully,” when used with reference to violations of the criminal law mean something more than a voluntary act, and more, also, than an intentional act which is in fact wrongful. They include the idea of an act intentionally done with a wrongful purpose, a bad purpose, or with a design to injure another, or one committed out of mere wantonness or lawlessness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parenteau
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.