Steele v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2008
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. State · Abel v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the well-settled law in this state, and of many other states, that it is an abuse of the penal statute relating to criminal trespass to try disputed rights in real property. (Citations omitted) It is the opinion of the court therefore that the verdict [finding the defendant guilty of criminal trespass] is contrary to law. 132 N.E. at 740 .”
3 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.