State v. Steen’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1986
12 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the slow-spreading influence of opinion arising from the deportment of a man in society, as a man's department, good or bad, necessarily produces one circle without another and so extends itself till it unites in one general opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The question is, What is said by people in general? This is the true point of inquiry, and everything which stops short of it is incorrect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. . Smoak
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.