In re MacLean’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably State v. McDaniel & Owens (1980), State v. Tyler (1992)
26 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 Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. · Merrick v. N. W. Halsey & Co. · Caldwell v. Sioux Falls Stock Yards Co. · Woolsey v. Best · Cities Service Co. v. Koeneke
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The rule is well settled that the power to define crimes and to prescribe punishment for their violation is the function of the legislature . . .” (p.681.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Shaw
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.