Banks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1996
23 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. Cunningham · Garbracht v. Commonwealth · DuBois v. State · People v. Lapham · State v. Hassett
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [Banks] had delivered the liquor in accordance with his declared purpose, he would have been the active means by and through which the liquor in question would have been placed in the custody and control of persons whom the statute was enacted to protect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lather v. Berg“to protect the health and morals of the inhabitants of the state by keeping intoxicating liquors out of their possession and beyond their control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lather v. Berg““. . . where the term of imprisonment was ninety.days, it was the absolute duty of the court to commit the defendant to the state farm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.