Kring v. State of Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 221 · 1882
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 42 district · 430 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 791 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably 660 So. 2d 1189 - State Ex Rel. Glover v. State (1995), Green v. United States (1957)
146 federal appellate · 42 district · 430 state decisions — followed in 45 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Ex parte McCardle · Ex parte Garland · Cummings v. The State of Missouri
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 791 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any law passed after the commission of an offence which ... 'in relation to that offence, or its consequences, alters the situation of a party to his disadvantage, ' is an ex post facto law.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in relation to the offence or its consequences, alters the situation of a party to his disadvantage,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law; and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.”
13 later decisions 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.