State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1953
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.
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.
“Difficulties and confusion frequently arise growing out of the multiplicity of names given to individuals, and by which they are known; to obviate this, they should be named as they are generally called in society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the middle name of an individual forms no part of the Christian name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hands
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.