People v. Whiteman’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 1979 · most notably 44 Cal. 2d 166 - People v. Sykes (1955), People v. Ward (1901)
49 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To prove that an accused person signed the name of another to an instrument, and that he passed such instrument as genuine, does not prove the commission of a crime. It must still be shown that it was a false instrument, and this is not proven until it is shown that the person who signed another’s name did so without authority. Until this proof is made, it is not shown to be a false instrument, and the defendant is not put to his proof at all.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gorham · State v. Jones
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.