People v. Cornell’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1962
10 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In other words, this sort of assault is a felony or misdemeanor, according to the facts, and we must take the judgment of the court affixing the punishment as determining the class to which the particular offense charged belongs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.