State v. Mellenberger’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1994
2 district · 17 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 72 Cal. App. 102 - People v. Edwards · Crum v. State · People v. Martin · Maxwell v. People · McCord v. . the People
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he criminal law has a public end in view, namely, to deter people from swindling. With the greatest respect for the New York and Wisconsin courts, we think this end is more effectually reached if we do not read into the absolute words of the statute (Pub. Sts. c. 203, 8 59) an implied exception which allows a knave to cheat any one out of his money if the knave can succeed in persuading his victim into a scheme which has any technical element of illegality on the victim's side. The question of allowing the latter a personal remedy is essentially different. Id., at 716 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of particeps eriminis has no place in the administration of criminal law. It has no more application to criminal jurisprudence than has the rule of contributory negligence, which, it is well settled, is foreign to our system of criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.