Snap v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1921
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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proof showed that Snap, by the direction of Francis, shot the mare with fine shot, inflicting a wound upon her flank, from which she recovered. The mare, at the time, was trespassing in a field of oats belonging to one of the plaintiffs in error, which was protected by an insufficient fence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Valdés
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.