State v. Scheffield’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1962
5 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 James 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a broader sense, ‘the betting book’ is that book which enables the professional bettor to carry on his business. We construe it literally. It refers to a ‘betting book’ used in promoting a race. It includes the ‘book,’ the ‘making book,’ and the bookmaker.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin““An act to prohibit gambling on horse races by the operation of betting books, French Mutual pooling devices, auction pools, or any other device, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin
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.