Parkinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Thomas v. Police Commissioner (1956), DeJarnette v. Federal Kemper Insurance (1984)
36 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.
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 ‘their ordinary and familiar signification,’ ‘in their accepted and known sense,’ the words, ‘sell’ and ‘give’ have not the same meaning, but-are commonly used to express different modes of transferring the right to property from one person to another; a sale meaning a transfer for a valuable consideration, a gift signifying a gratuitous transfer without any equivalent.” (Page 197.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fletcher
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.