Ritter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1940 · most notably Parks v. State (1902), State v. Beach (1897)
27 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 Smith v. State · Garrett v. State · State v. Miller · Shinn v. State · Clayton v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this country it (employee) is of such common use that its meaning is not at all uncertain. Besides, the word ‘employee’ is one of those used ■ in the statute, in specifying the persons who may commit the public offence of embezzlement . . . “Webster thus defines the word ‘employee:’ ‘One who is employed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.