State v. Masino’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2017
12 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Kring v. State of Missouri · Samuels v. McCurdy · Jaehne v. People of the State of New York · State v. Hobbs
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Ex post facto' is a term used long before the Revolution. It was the cause of a long and heated debate when the Constitution of the United States was adopted. It has now acquired an appropriate meaning: `Ex post facto is a term used in the law, signifying something done after, or arising from or to affect, another thing that was committed before.' `An ex post facto law is one which operates upon a subject not liable to it at the time the law was made.' Kring v. Missouri, 107 U.S. 221, 227 , 2 S.Ct. 443, 448 , 27 L.Ed. 506, 508 . One of the authoritative tests of the application of an ex post facto law is where we have a statute enacted subsequent to the commission of the crime. If the new statute alters the situation of the accused to his disadvantage, it is ex post facto. 11 Am.Jur. Par. 348.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sorrell“Article 32 of the Louisiana Criminal Code relating to ‘negligent homicide’ under which the prosecution was brought became effective as a law of the State on July 29, 1942 Justice McCaleb, dissenting, explained that the penalty for negligent homicide was imprisonment for not more than five years.) . Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 5 provides that:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If this is true, certainly it is a factor to the disadvantage of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bunn
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.