State v. Then’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably State v. Weleck (1952), State v. McCrary (1984)
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 Commonwealth v. Simpson · State v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · State v. Kern · State v. Riggs · State v. Tilton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exercised according to one's own will or caprice and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse possession of power.”
1 later decision 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.