State v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably State v. Laundy (1922), In re Willow Creek (1914)
63 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 Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Burnside v. Lincoln County Court · Bowman v. Cockrill · Kurtz v. People
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ It is the settled rule in this state that in indictments for misdemeanors, created by statute, it is sufficient to charge the offense in the words of the statute, subject to the qualification that the crime must be set forth with such certainty as will apprise the accused of the offense imputed to him. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If all the provisions of the law relate directly or indirectly to the same subject, are naturally connected, and are not foreign to the subject expressed in the title, they will not be held unconstitutional.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laundy
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.