Engleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Tregambo v. Comanche Mill & Mining Co. (1881), United States v. Tomchek (1977)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Redman v. State · State v. Hopkins
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a fact, historically known, that Christian nations have generally-adopted the Gregorian calendar, numbering the' years from the hirth of Christ. This is a Christian state, and has adopted the same; and when a. year is mentioned in our legislative or judicial proceedings, and no mention is made of the Jewish, Mahometan, or other system of reckoning time, all understand the Christian calendar to be used. For example, the constitution of the United States declares that the importation of certain persons shall not he prohibited before the year eighteen hundred and eight, and that of Indiana declares that Corydon shall be the seat of government till eighteen hundred and twenty-five. These are important documents, demanding the greatest certainty and precision of statement, yet whoever heard of any person contending that the year of the union was meant in one of these instances, and the year of the state in the other? To hold an indictment bad for the omission of the words in question can never be necessary to the safety of any of the rights of the accused, and would tend to bring odium on judicial proceedings.””
1 later decision 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.