State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Lewisohn (1977), State v. Bennett (1962)
27 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 State v. Robinson · State v. Sprague · State v. Ward · State v. Harvey · State v. Gustin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are certain elements necessary to night hunting. It must be night time as distinguished from daytime, and within the times set by statue, there must be present and available certain instrumentalities, that is, a light, a gun and ammunition and back of this a purpose to search, find and possess the animal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State““ . . .It must prove each and every circumstance upon which the conviction must rest beyond a reasonable doubt and the evidence must he sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis except that of the respondent’s guilt. . . . ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tomer
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.