State v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Boatright v. Kansas Racing Commission (1992), Arredondo v. Duckwall Stores, Inc. (1980)
36 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 Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · State v. Merrifield · State v. Avery · Intoxicating-Liquor Cases · State Ex Rel. Ferguson v. American Savings Stamp Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is within the power of the legislature to declare an act criminal irrespective of the intent or knowledge of the doer of the act. In accordance with 6 this power, the legislature in many instances has prohibited, under penalty, the performance of specific acts. The doing of the inhibited act constitutes the crime, and the moral turpitude or purity of the motive by which it was prompted and the knowledge or ignorance of its criminal character are immaterial circumstances on the question of guilt. The only fact to be determined in these cases is whether the defendant did the act. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Genson · State v. Thomas“[T]he Legislature may, for protection of the public interest, require persons to act at their peril, and may punish the doing of a forbidden act without regard to the knowledge, intention, motive, or moral turpitude of the doer. There is no constitutional objection to 16 such legislation, the necessity for which the Legislature is authorized to determine. State v. Brown, 38 Kan. 390, 393 , 16 Pac. 259 ; 16 C. J. 76-78.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Genson“State v. Logan, 198 Kan. 211, 216 , 424 P.2d 565 (1967). In State v. Avery, 111 Kan. 588 , 207 P. 838 (1922), the defendant urged that the criterion of guilt in criminal law was wrongful intent. The court, in answering the contention, said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Genson
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.