State v. Lentz’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 1962 · most notably State v. Pinkston (1935), State v. Pratt (1923)
40 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. Noland · State v. Pratt · State v. Shipley · State v. Adams · State v. . King
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any officer, agent, clerk, servant, or collector of any incorporated company, or any person employed in any such capacity, shall embezzle or convert to his own use, . . . without the assent of his master or employer, any money . . . which shall have come into his possession or under his care by virtue of such employment or office, he shall, upon conviction, be punished, etc. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.