State v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1985
21 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 Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · State Board of Tax Com'rs of Indiana v. Jackson · Metropolitan Casualty Ins Co of New York v. Brownell · State ex rel. Walker v. Judge of Section "A," Criminal District Court
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if any state of facts reasonably may be conceived to justify it”
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.