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State v. . Downs’s Empirical Analysis

1895

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
April 1926
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1926

1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Ignorance of the law excuses no one, and the vicarious ignorance of counsel has no greater value.”
    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.