Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2017
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 Pierson v. . the People · The People v. . Conroy · Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Coleman v. . People of the State of N.Y. · 1 E.H. Smith 78 - People v. . Shea
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is always permissible to show previous troubles, when in search of the real cause or motive actuating a party to the •commission of crime, especially if the trouble is of recent occurrence, or even somewhat remote in time, if it tends to elucidate and throw light on the act constituting the crime •or explain the reason of its commission.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Talley v. State
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.