People v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1944
9 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 Mattox v. United States · Dealy v. United States · Trono v. United States · Selvester v. United States · People v. McKinney
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not disposed to reverse convictions in criminal cases because of the impassioned arguments of the prosecuting officers, unless we can clearly see that such arguments were unwarranted by the evidence and probably contributed to the result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sharp
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.