Willis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2004
23 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 Thompson v. State of Missouri · Amos v. State · Ker v. People · Dennis v. State · Reeves 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The next important question raised upon the record is whether the prosecution could be compelled to elect to prosecute for one particular act of embezzlement. The evidence shows that the defendant was a station agent of the railroad company, and as such had full charge and control of its business at that station; Avas the custodian of all money arising out of the sale of tickets, collected all freight and express charges, made disbursements, and kept the books. Furthermore, the evidence tended to show that, by a system of false entries upon the books and other dubious practices, he endeavored to conceal his withholding of small sums of money which came into his possession from time to time by virtue of his employment; and, by a system of falsification, he managed to conceal * * * his acts of conversion of his employer’s money.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If proof was made that $25 or more was embezzled, the crime is punishable as grand larceny is punished. . . ."”
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.