State v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1968
14 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 Johnson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No doubt it was the legislative intent, given expression in the recent enactment, to supplement the provision of section 24 of the Bonner Act in such wise as to forbid the possession, receipt, and carriage of prohibited liquors or beverages by or for any person at any public or private place; that is, liquors or beverages that were not within the exceptions provided in the act.”
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.