Hinesley v. Sheets’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1939
8 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 De Hart v. Board of Commissioners · Manley v. Felty · Hamrick v. Loring · Marvin v. Sager · Rogers v. Eich
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee might have taken wheat that did not belong to him, without committing a crime. He might have taken it with the permission and consent of the owner. And the mere allegation of the words spoken as stated in the complaint, without the colloquium and innuendo, would be insufficient. In the complaint, however, it is distinctly averred that appellant meant and charged, by the speaking of said words, that appellee was guilty of the crime of larceny, and that appellee had feloniously taken, stolen, and carried away the goods and chattels, the property of appellant, and that the persons so hearing the words understood appellant so to mean. We think each paragraph of complaint in the cause was sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Grief
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.