State v. Ciocca’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably State v. Morrill (1969), In Re Dobson (1965)
48 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 State v. Goyet · State v. Brisson · State v. Margie · State v. Severance · Morse v. Ward
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Burning to defraud insurer A person who wilfully and with intent to injure or defraud the insurer sets fire to or burns or attempts so to do or who wilfully and maliciously causes to be burned or who wilfully and maliciously aids, counsels or procures the burning of any building . . . which shall at the time be insured ... shall be imprisoned ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Huginski““It is not uncommon for a statute to denounce as an offense two or more separate and distinct acts, things, or transactions enumerated therein in the disjunctive, and it appears to be the general rule that in such case the whole may be charged conjunctively and a respondent found guilty of either one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Polidor“A person who endeavors to incite, procure or hire another person to commit a felony, though the felony is not actually committed as a result of such inciting, hiring or procuring, shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $500.00, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.