State v. Kavanaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 328 So. 2d 110 - State v. Newton (1976), State v. Campbell (1972)
25 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 United States v. Reese · Crescent City Live Stock & Slaughter-House Co. v. Larrieux · State v. De Hart · State v. Nahoum · State v. Maitrejean
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, “That every person who shall obtain or attempt to obtain from any other person, or persons any money or property, by means or by use of any false or bogus checks, or by any other means, instrument or device, commonly called the confidence game, shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than three months nor more than five years. “Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., "That in every affidavit, information or indictment under the preceding section it shall be deemed and held a sufficient description of the offense to charge that the accused did, on etc., unlawfully and. feloniously obtain, or attempt to obtain, (as the case may be,) from A. B. (here insert the name of the person or persons defrauded or attempted to be defrauded and the manner in which he was defrauded, or the attempt to defraud was made,) his money (or property, in the case it be not money,) by means and use of the confidence game. “Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., “That nothing herein shall be taken, intended or construed to affect or repeal the laws presently in existence upon the subject of false pretense, larceny, embezzlement, forgery, and publishing as true a forged instrument.” (Italicsjours.)”
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.