State v. Manley’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1926
12 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. Hooker · State v. Flint · State v. Roberts · State v. Clarkson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object and purpose of the statute was to prohibit by severe punishment the conversion of moneys received by virtue of official position and certain fiduciary relations named therein. It was enacted with a view to *Page 509 prevent the growing tendency of those intrusted with public moneys and trust funds, to speculate for their own personal aggrandizement. "To accomplish this purpose, it was deemed best to say to officers and trustees, You shall not convert to your own use in any manner whatever the moneys you have received by virtue of your public trust. Your good intentions will not restore these moneys after your investment has proved disastrous. It matters not that in many cases you honestly think you can safely invest the public funds and will be able to restore them when called for. They were not placed in your hands for such a purpose. To save you from dishonor, your sureties from bankruptcy and loss, we will deter you from attempting such a proceeding. Experience justified the Legislature in coming to this conclusion. Observation had taught that many well-meaning men had been lured to their own disgrace and ruin by converting the trust funds in their hands to their own private ends, and, having lost, attempted to cover up their property and make good the trust funds by false charges and vouchers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross
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.