State v. Melson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 24 Ill. 2d 437 - John v. Tribune Company (1962), State v. Guillot (1942)
41 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 Ferguson v. State · 46 La. Ann. 1332 - State v. Taylor · State v. Hahn · 7 La. Ann. 47 - State v. Benjamin · State v. Henderson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is of the essence of forgery, or uttering, that the writing (made, altered, or uttered) `purport to be the act of another person' than the one charged with the offense. State v. Taylor, 46 La. Ann. 1332 , 16 So. 190 , 25 L.R.A. 591 , 49 Am. St. Rep. 351 . And therefore one cannot be guilty of forgery or uttering, who makes or issues a writing as his own, even if in so doing he uses a fictitious name and his intent be to defraud.”
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.