Shonfeld v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1970
14 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 Kelley v. State · Johnson v. State · Miller v. Miller · Murphy v. State · Torrans v. Hicks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . An examination of the evidence indicates very clearly that at the time this affidavit was made, none of the parties involved understood the legal meaning of the jurat or how an oath should be administered. Since the affidavit was on the claim of Jack Shonfeld, it was apparently assumed by the notary, and possibly by the others, that his name should be written in the affidavit in the blank space provided for the name of the affiant. From this affidavit and jurat, however, it cannot be reasonably inferred that Sylvia Beiriger, the notary, intended to, or did, certify that the appellant subscribed and swore to the affidavit. Therefore, since she, as principal, was not guilty of the crime charged, the conviction of the appellant for having ‘counseled, encouraged and procured’ her to falsely certify ‘that said Jack Shonfeld has subscribed his name and was sworn by her’ to said affidavit cannot be sustained. Murphy v. State (1915), 184 Ind. 15 , 110 N. E. 198 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noble v. State
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.