State v. Dewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1967 · most notably State v. Zammar (1957), State v. Hicklin (1949)
28 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. Marshall · State v. Williams · State v. Ray · State v. McDonald · State v. Krueger
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.
““If the animal, as described in the indictment, falls within any of the terms employed in the statute, it will be sufficient, although it might have been better described by some other name, especially where the statutory word is a generic term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.