State v. Lopes, Sr.’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2009
5 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 State v. Howard · Robinson v. State · State ex rel. Childs v. Copeland · United States v. Green · State v. Clements
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Long gone is the time when, in respect to a [charging document], a defendant can successfully claim not to be able to get from [the document] the knowledge in respect to the charge against him that any other sane and intelligent reader would gather from even a casual reading, without resorting to inference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunson
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.