Agar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably Domestic Block Coal Co. v. DeArmey (1913), Kennedy v. State (1935)
86 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 People v. . Molineux · 13 Cal. App. 521 - People v. Hatch · Brunaugh v. State · People v. Treadwell · Thomas 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true test of the sufficiency of an affidavit is whether the material averments thereof are stated with such certainty as to apprise the defendant of the nature and character of the charge against him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kops v. State · Switzer v. State““The indictment or affidavit is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom . . . Fifth. That the offense charged is stated with such a degree of certainty that the court may pronounce judgment upon a conviction according to the right of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Switzer 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.