State v. . Humphries’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Matter of Banks (1978), State v. Spencer (1970)
40 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 Hutchings v. Commercial Bank of Danville · State v. . Earnhardt · Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. Hood · Hines v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad · State v. . Broadway
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of all interpretation is to determine the intent of the lawmaking body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re RLC
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.