People v. Abbot’s Empirical Analysis
1838
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably State Ex Rel. Pope v. Superior Court (1976), State v. Fortney (1980)
38 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And will you not more readily infer assent in the practised Messalina, in loose attire, than in the reserved and virtuous Lucretia?”
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.