State v. Moilen’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein (1958), State v. Laundy (1922)
28 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Mathison v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co. · Lavallee v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · State v. Durnam · Williams v. Evans · State v. Shevlin-Carpenter Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature may prescribe definite terms of imprisonment, a specified amount as a fine, or fix the maximum and minimum limits of either, which the courts are bound to respect and follow. In fact the court has jurisdiction to interfere with legislation upon this subject only Avhen there has been a clear departure from the fundamental law and the spirit and purpose thereof and a punishment imposed which is manifestly in excess of constitutional limitations.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ives
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.