State v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 1995 · most notably State v. Goddard (1901), Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Nations (1938)
2 district · 34 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 Sparks v. Dispatch Transfer Co. · State v. Spaulding · State v. Pratt · State v. Adams · State v. . King
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“period or making good his shortage when called to account. . . . When an act forbidden by law is intentionally done the intent to do the act is the criminal intent which imparts to it the character of the offense, and no one who violates a law. which he is conclusively presumed to know can be heard to say he had no criminal intent in doing it.” This”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When Judge Hirzel refused to act further it was as if he had never consented to act. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perkins
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.