State v. Van Pelt’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1985 · most notably Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering (1921), Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory (1944)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 United States v. Cruikshank · Pettibone v. United States · Vegelahn v. Guntner · Plant v. Woods · Bohn Manufacturing Co. v. Hollis
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No offense is so easily charged and so difficult to be met, unless the defendants are fully informed of the facts upon which the state will rely to sustain the indictment. While technical objections to indictments are 'not to be sustained, substantive and substantial facts should be alleged. General and undefined charges of crime, especially chose involving mental conditions and attitudes, should not be encouraged. They are not in harmony with the genius of a free people, living under a written constitution. We can see no good reason why an exception to the general rules of criminal pleading should be made in favor of this crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.