State v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1972
7 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. Pomeroy · State v. Keelen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Under the statute of larceny of domestic animals, it will be noted that the word ‘steal’ is used. When the word ‘steal’ is used it means to take and carry away property of another with the felonious intent to deprive the owner thereof, and to appropriate the same to one’s own use. It must be noted that when the word ‘steal’ is used either in the information or in an instruction, that it carries with it the meaning that the property converted is by felonious intent.””
2 later decisions 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.