State v. Fitzporter’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1968
9 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. DeBar · Ex parte Thomas · State ex rel. Baker v. Fiala
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to find in this general law, or in the course of legislation upon its subject matter, any intimation of a legislative intention to disturb the existing local regulations provided in this connection for the city of St. Louis and its court of criminal correction, although the general law is the later in its date of passage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Boeger
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.