State v. Yocum’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1984 · most notably United States v. Anderson (1946), United States v. Commerford (1933)
5 federal appellate · 27 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. . Heineman · Spade v. State · State v. Peabody · 9 N.Y. Crim. 529 - People v. Meyer · People ex rel. Armstrong v. Quigley
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But that order has no influence in this prosecution, other than that his utter failure to comply with it shows appellee’s failure to discharge all his natural and legal obligations to his children. By this statute the state has created a sharper and more effective spear for a dull or dormant sense of parental duty than that which was before the instrument of a court of equity in a divorce proceeding.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francis · State v. Manley
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.