State v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2006
7 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. Wellman · State v. Brewster · Commonwealth v. Morrell Ref. Car. Co. · State v. Brewster
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first question presented related to the matter of venue. The defendants were residents of Cheyenne county, where they were engaged as dealers in gasoline and other motor-vehicle fuels, and they were prosecuted in Shawnee county, where the state insisted that payments were to be made at the office of the state oil inspector. It is conceded that defendants were not doing business in Shawnee county, where they were tried and convicted. Defendants insist that as ‘offenses committed against the laws of this state shall be punished in the county in which the offense is committed except as may be otherwise provided by law’ (R. S. 62-461), the venue was in Cheyenne county where the defendants were engaged in business. The defendants, as stated, were prosecuted for a violation of chapter 274 of the Laws of 1925, which imposes a tax on the sale or use of motor-vehicle fuels, provides for the payment, collection and disposition of the revenue derived from the tax and imposes penalties for violations of the act. Section 4 of the act requires that sworn reports of the motor-vehicle fuel received by dealers, from any source, shall be made to the state oil inspector at stated times. In section 5 it is provided that at the time of making the required reports the dealers shall pay the tax due to the state oil inspector. The statute does not expressly provide the place of payment, but does require it to be made to the state oil inspector, and it is a reasonable inference that it must be p”
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.