Messel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Forte v. United States (1937), Grey v. State (1980)
5 federal appellate · 49 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 Isaacs v. United States · Winslow v. State · Stocking v. State · Ryan v. State · Polson v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two things were necessary to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt before appellant could be convicted, namely the corpus delicti—the fact that the crime of rape had been committed on the child— and the agency of appellant in the commission of that crime.” (My italics.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.