State v. Boudreau’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably State v. Ballou (1968), Davis v. State (1962)
25 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 Perkins v. Vermont Hydro-Electric Corp. · Wellman, Admr. v. Wales · State v. Drew · Robinson v. Leonard · State v. Brewster
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be that the evidence raises a suspicion and possibly a strong one that the respondent was involved in the crimes charged. But as we have said before, mere suspicion, however strong, will not supply the place of evidence. State v. Boudreau, 111 Vt. 351, 364 , 16 A.2d 262, 267 (1940).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Senner
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.