State v. Trolson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Commissioner v. Wilcox (1946), Grin v. Shine (1902)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 People v. Gray · Commonwealth v. Raymond · Commonwealth v. Bennett · People v. Hennessey · State v. Logan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-established rule of construction that if the act is broader than the title, that part of the act indicated by the title will stand, while that portion of the act not indicated by the title must be rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The offense consists in the violation of the law, not in the intent or motive by which the party was actuated.””
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.