State v. Dreher’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dascalakis (1923), Woodell v. State (1960)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Field v. Matson · State v. Jones · Gehrke v. Jod
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In that case no authority was found upon which to base the ruling and we cannot find that it has ever been followed in this or any other State . . .; but we *Page 46 think that the Court of Appeals in that case suffered a hard case to make bad law and ignored the fact that it was a court for the review of errors only, and that it was confined to such errors as appeared on the record proper and to such exceptions as had been ruled on by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Selvaggi
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.