State v. Lowenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Connally v. General Construction Co. (1926), Ritholz v. Commonwealth (1945)
5 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All that is necessary is the issuing of the check upon a bank or depositary by one who at the time has insufficient funds or credit; the issue being made with intent to defraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bradley“'Fraud' is a 'deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doane
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.