State v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Kotteakos v. United States (1946), State v. Perry (2010)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 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 People v. . O'Sullivan · State v. Pitts · Mose v. State · State v. Grate · State v. Hays
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is plainly manifest that, the definite article ‘the’ which should immediately precede the word ‘State’ being omitted, the conclusion to the indictment in the case at bar falls far short of indicating the power or authority against which the facts charged in the body of the indictment constitute an offense. . . . It is clear that the omission of this word not only changes the sense but the very substance of the clause. . . . In the use of the definite article ‘the’ immediately preceding ‘State’ in the conclusion prescribed by the Constitution we have pointed out the State whose peace and dignity has been offended, and by the omission of such definite article we have a conclusion that does not designate the power or authority against which the offense is committed. ... If this conclusion embraced language similar to that pointed out in the cases to which we have heretofore deferred, such as ‘against the peace and dignity of our said State,’ or ‘against the peace and dignity of State of Missouri,’ it might be very properly ruled that such language was at least equivalent to the language prescribed by the Constitution, for the reason that it indicated the power and authority against which the offense as charged in the body of the indictment constitutes an offense.” (State v. Campbell, 210 Mo. 202, 224, 225 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“['The'] is used before nouns with a specifying or particularizing effect.”
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.